Legacies, logics, logistics : essays in the anthropology of the platform economy
Jane I. Guyer
Bok Engelsk 2016
| Utgitt | Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2016
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| Omfang | xii, 312 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | Foundations -- The themes of legacies, logics, logistics -- "Toiling ingenuity": food regulation in Britain and Nigeria -- Public economic cultures -- "The craving for intelligibility": speech and silence on the economy under structural adjustment and military rule in Nigeria (with Laray Denzer) -- Prophecy and the near future: thoughts on macroeconomic, evangelical, and punctuated time -- From market to platform: shifting analytics for the study of current capitalism -- Cultures of calculation -- The eruption of tradition?: on ordinality and calculation -- Percentages and perchance: archaic forms in the twenty-first century platforms -- Intricacy and impasse: dilemmas of value in soft-currency economies -- Indexing people to money: the fate of "shelter" -- Toward ethnography and the people's economies -- Composites, fictions, and risk: toward an ethnography of price -- Soft currencies, cash economies, new monies: past and present -- Is the "real economy" disaggregating, disappearing, or deviating?
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| ISBN | 9780226326733
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