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Economies of Favour after Socialism (Hardcover)
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Economies of Favour after Socialism (Hardcover)
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Since the onset of the global economic crisis, activists, policy
makers, and social scientists have been searching for alternative
paradigms through which to re-imagine contemporary modes of
thinking and writing about economic orders. These attempts have led
to their re-engagement with fundamental anthropological categories
of economic analysis, such as barter, debt, and the gift. Focusing
on favours, and the paradoxes of action, meaning, and significance
they engender, this volume advocates for their addition to this
list of economic universals. It presents a critical
re-interrogation of the conceptual relationships between gratuitous
and instrumental behaviour, and raises novel questions about the
intersection of economic actions with the ethical and expressive
aspects of human life. Scholars of post-socialist politics and
society have often used 'favour' as a by-word for corruption and
clientelism. The contributors to this volume treat favours, and the
doing of favours, as a distinct mode of acting, rather than as a
form of 'masked' economic exchange or simply an expression of
goodwill. Casting their comparative net from post-socialist
Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe; to the former Soviet
Union, Mongolia, and post-Maoist China, the contributors to this
volume show how gratuitous behaviour shapes a plethora of different
actions, practices, and judgements across religious and political
life, imaginative practices, and local moral economies. They show
that favours do not operate 'outside' or 'beyond' the economic
sphere. Rather, they constitute a distinct mode of action which has
economic consequences, without being fully explicable in terms of
transactional cost-benefit analyses.
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