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Author Musaraj, Smoki, author.

Title Tales from Albarado : Ponzi logics of accumulation in postsocialist Albania / Smoki Musaraj.

Publication Info. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020.
©2020

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
text file
Series Book collections on Project MUSE.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Fajde, Pyramid Firms, or Ponzi Schemes : Gendering and Ethnicizing Finance -- "Money Flowed Like a River" : Materialities of Finance -- Working the Money : Migrants, Remittances, and Social Ties -- Housing and the Temporality of Speculation -- The Pyramid Way : Ponzi Logics of Accumulation in Construction.
Summary "This book examines how people from all walks of life mobilized different forms of wealth-savings, privatization vouchers, remittances, housing, social ties-to invest in the speculative pyramid schemes that were all the rage in late 1990s Albania"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Ponzi schemes -- Albania.
Ponzi schemes.
Albania.
Speculation -- Albania.
Speculation.
Post-communism -- Economic aspects -- Albania.
Post-communism -- Economic aspects.
Post-communism.
Albania -- Economic conditions -- 1992-
Economic conditions.
Chronological Term 1992-
Subject SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural.
Economic history.
Chronological Term Since 1992
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Musaraj, Smoki. Tales from Albarado Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2020. 9781501750335 (DLC) 2019050415
ISBN 9781501750359 electronic book
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