Tales from Albarado: Ponzi Logics of Accumulation in Postsocialist Albania

Smoki Musaraj

Published by Cornell University Press 2022

Tales from Albarado

Ponzi Logics of Accumulation in Postsocialist Albania

Smoki Musaraj

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501750366

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About this book

Overall, these granular stories of participation in the Albanian schemes help understand neoliberal capitalism as a heterogeneous economic formation that intertwines capitalist and noncapitalist forms of accumulation and investment.

Author / Editor information

Smoki Musaraj is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Ohio University, and co-author of Money at the Margins.

Reviews

Jane I. Guyer, Johns Hopkins University:

"This is an excellent piece of work, on a crucial topic for intensive local ethnography of the temporal disjunctures and varied monetary, cultural and organizational/bureaucratic interfaces of the present world. And it offers conceptual, methodological and comparative-theoretical themes"

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction: The Tale of Albarado and the Anthropology of Financial Speculation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Fajde, Pyramid Firms, or Ponzi Schemes?: Gendered Discourses of Finance Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
2. “Money Flowed Like a River”: Materialities of Speculation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	64
3. “Working the Money”: Migrants, Remittances, and Social Ties Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	94
4. “All We Wanted Was a Beautiful Home”: Housing and Temporalities of Speculation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	112
5. The Pyramid Way: Speculation in Construction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	138
Epilogue: Ponzi Logics in Postsocialist Albania Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189

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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 216
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 12
- Images: 12
- Other: 12 b&w halftones
Keywords: Albania; postsocialism; Ponzi schemes; political economy; neoliberal capitalism

eBook

Published: August 15, 2020
ISBN: 9781501750366