The real economy : essays in ethnographic theory /
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Chicago :
Hau Books,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. The real in the real economy / Federico Neiburg and Jane Guyer. Chapter One. The live act of business and the culture of realization / Fabian Muniesa - - Chapter Two. Deductions and counter-deductions in South Africa / Deborah James - - Chapter Three. Resisting numbers: The favela as an (un)quantifiable reality / Eugénia Motta - - Chapter Four. What is a 'real' transaction in high-frequency trading / Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra - - Chapter Five. Soybean, bricks, dollars, and the reality of money in Argentina / Mariana Luzzi and Ariel Wilkis - - Chapter Six. A political anthropology of finance in cross-border investment in Shanghai / Horacio Ortiz - - Chapter seven. Corporate personhood and the competative relation in antitrust / Gustavo Onto - - Chapter Eight. Making workers real on a South African border farm / Maxim Bolt - - Chapter Nine. How will we pay? Projective fictions and regimes of foresight in US college finance / Caitlin Zaloom
- Chapter Ten. Smuggling realities: On numbers, borders, and performances / Fernando Rabossi. Afterword. The method of the real: What do we intend with ethnographic infrastructure? / Bill Maurer.