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This book offers a comprehensive analysis of economic crimes and market irregularities, including matters of trickery, illicit trade, parallel economy, economies of violence and criminalisation of the poor in neoliberal Africa. It interrogates economic crime as a product of neoliberal reform and transformation (as well as of historical structures). It unpacks crime as a social and particularly as a political-economic phenomenon of capitalism. The book brings together a collection of research articles, briefings and blog posts that were published over a period of nearly 40 years (19862023), in the acclaimed journal Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE) and on its website roape.net.

Featuring contributions from leading experts in the field, including a foreword by Yusuf K. Serunkuma and an afterword by Laureen Snider, the volume explores what these economic crimes have to do with, and can tell us about power, class, accumulation, dependency, (under)developm

Capitalism and Economic Crime in Africa

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      Publisher Taylor & Francis
      Published 6/21/2024
      ISBN-13 9781032788272
      978-1032788272
      ISBN-10 1032788275
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      Corporate crime / white-collar crime

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      This book offers a comprehensive analysis of economic crimes and market irregularities, including matters of trickery, illicit trade, parallel economy, economies of violence and criminalisation of the poor in neoliberal Africa. It interrogates economic crime as a product of neoliberal reform and transformation (as well as of historical structures). It unpacks crime as a social and particularly as a political-economic phenomenon of capitalism. The book brings together a collection of research articles, briefings and blog posts that were published over a period of nearly 40 years (19862023), in the acclaimed journal Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE) and on its website roape.net.

      Featuring contributions from leading experts in the field, including a foreword by Yusuf K. Serunkuma and an afterword by Laureen Snider, the volume explores what these economic crimes have to do with, and can tell us about power, class, accumulation, dependency, (under)developm

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