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Title People, money and power in the economic crisis : perspectives from the global south / edited by Keith Hart and John Sharp.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (233 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series The human economy ; v. 1
Human economy ; v. 1.
Contents Preface: The Human Economy Project; Introduction; Chapter 1 -- After the Big Clean-Up: Street Vendors, the Informal Economy and Employment Policy in Zimbabwe; Chapter 2 -- Immoral Accumulation and the Human Economy of Death in Venda; Chapter 3 -- ''Letting Money Work for Us'': Self-Organization and Financialization from Below in an All-Male Savings Club in Soweto; Chapter 4 -- Market, Race and Nation: History of the White Working Class in Pretoria; Chapter 5 -- Negotiating Inequality: The Contemporary Black Middle Classes in Salvador, Brazil.
Chapter 6 -- Live Music in the Age of Digital Reproduction: Cape VerdeChapter 7 -- Congo-Gauteng: Congolese Migrants in South Africa; Chapter 8 -- Neither Nationals nor Cosmopolitans: The Political Economy of Belonging for Mozambican Indians; Chapter 9 -- Marwari Traders between Hindu Neoliberalism and Democratic Socialism in Nepal; References; Contributors; Index.
Summary The Cold War was fought between "state socialism" and "the free market." That fluctuating relationship between public power and private money continues today, unfolding in new and unforeseen ways during the economic crisis. Nine case studies -- from Southern Africa, South Asia, Brazil, and Atlantic Africa - examine economic life from the perspective of ordinary people in places that are normally marginal to global discourse, covering a range of class positions from the bottom to the top of society. The authors of these case studies examine people's concrete economic activities and aspirations.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Sustainable development -- Developing countries.
Sustainable development.
Developing countries.
Financial crises -- Developing countries.
Financial crises.
Money -- Developing countries.
Money.
Power (Social sciences) -- Developing countries.
Power (Social sciences)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Hart, Keith.
Sharp, John (John S.)
Other Form: Print version: People, money, and power in the economic crisis. New York : Berghahn Books, 2014 9781782384670 (DLC) 2014016234 (OCoLC)881659997
ISBN 9781782384687 (electronic book)
1782384685 (electronic book)
9781782384670 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
1782384677 (hardback ; alkaline paper)