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Author: Jörg Wiegratz
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield International
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield International
Dimensions:
Width: 15.90cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 23.90cm
Weight: 0.685kg
ISBN: 9781783488537
ISBN 10: 1783488530
Pages: 375
Publication Date: 17 November 2016
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Neoliberalism promised a better economic world, it delivered economic wrong-doing on an industrial scale. In Neoliberal Moral Economy, Jorg Wiegratz provides a telling analysis of why. Focused on Uganda but ranging around the world, he shows how stressing markets full of self-regarding actors ends up encouraging values that justify both this self-regard and the harm it can cause others. -- James G Carrier, Professor, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Oxford Brookes University and Indiana University Have you ever wondered what the world would look like if we were to treat economic fraud as something rather more than an anomaly within otherwise pristine market conditions? Jorg Wiegratz reveals all in this wonderfully readable book about market practices in neoliberal Uganda. He lifts the lid on the many different ways in which fraudulent activities have become integral to the functioning of the economic system, acting as cues from which market participants learn what to expect from one another. Whilst Wiegratz's analysis benefits handsomely from the extended time he has spent in Uganda, his headline conclusions are rather more than a comment on the particularities of that one country. He asks us to contemplate how the assumptions of market ideology might obscure the extent to which most market environments facilitate pockets of ostensibly anti-market fraudulent activities. We are therefore encouraged to treat economic fraud as a potentially universal cultural norm that might apply wherever market ideology takes hold. These are brand new and fascinating arguments, showing us in hugely important ways how the modern moral economy of fraud now works. -- Matthew Watson, Professor of Political Economy, University of Warwick, UK Economic and Social Research Council Professorial Fellow Across disciplines, 'fraud' is either relatively absent, treated as an aberration, or cast as something that happens 'over there' - read 'Global South'. Neoliberal Moral Economy moves it centre stage as it skilfully charts how forging a market society is not simply a political-economic but also a socio-cultural transformation. This trans-disciplinary, empirically rich, and theoretically sophisticated analysis lays bare the complex dynamics of moral restructuring towards economies characterised by fraud - and how these might be resisted. -- Steve Tombs, Professor of Criminology, the Open University Focusing on the normalisation of fraud as a destructive outcome of neoliberal restructuring in Uganda, Jorg Wiegratz opens up a creative space for rethinking the dynamic relationship between actors, norms and political economy. This innovative book is a must-read for anyone who seeks to understand the complex role morality plays in the reproduction of neoliberal market economies. -- Steve Hall, Professor of Criminology, Teesside University This scholarly work on the contradictory changes of socio-cultural moral decadence is timely for understanding the current dynamics of Uganda after the neo-liberal capitalist reforms. Jorg Wiegratz unravels fraud and corruption as adverse contradictions which have permeated Uganda's political-economy fabric thus leading to a moral crisis. This is a premier book that fills gaps in Uganda's post-1986 literature on subjects of neoliberalism, capitalism, development and poverty, and is thus highly commendable. -- Godfrey B. Asiimwe, Associate Professor and Chair of Development Studies, Makerere University
Author Information
Jörg Wiegratz is Lecturer in Political Economy of Global Development at the University of Leeds. He previously worked as a researcher and consultant in Uganda for the UN Industrial Development Organization, the Government of Uganda's Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Industry and the German Agency for Technical Cooperation, and as a Visiting Scholar at the Economic Policy Research Centre, Kampala. He is author of Uganda's Human Resource Challenge: Training, Business Culture and Economic Development, co-editor of Uganda: The dynamics of neoliberal transformations, and co-editor of Neoliberalism and the Moral Economy of Fraud. He has also published articles in New Political Economy, Journal of Agrarian Change, and Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE). He is a ROAPE editor, and coordinates the roape.net blog series on Economic trickery, fraud and crime in Africa, and Capitalism in Africa.
