Tales from Albarado : : Ponzi Logics of Accumulation in Postsocialist Albania / / Smoki Musaraj.
Tales from Albarado revisits times of excitement and loss in early 1990s Albania, in which about a dozen pyramid firms collapsed and caused the country to fall into anarchy and a near civil war. To gain a better understanding of how people from all walks of life came to invest in these financial sch...
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| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 p.) :; 12 b&w halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Tale of Albarado and the Anthropology of Financial Speculation
- 1. Fajde, Pyramid Firms, or Ponzi Schemes?: Gendered Discourses of Finance
- 2. “Money Flowed Like a River”: Materialities of Speculation
- 3. “Working the Money”: Migrants, Remittances, and Social Ties
- 4. “All We Wanted Was a Beautiful Home”: Housing and Temporalities of Speculation
- 5. The Pyramid Way: Speculation in Construction
- Epilogue: Ponzi Logics in Postsocialist Albania
- Notes
- References
- Index