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Book SynopsisRepresents a different approach to the question of citizenship amid the changing global economy and the fiscal crisis of the nation-state. This book examines the nature of fiscal relationships between the state and its citizens. It argues that citizenship is being redefined through a renegotiation of the rights and obligations.
Trade Review"The whole book is a sophisticated essay on how to bring such an area and problematic into focus: the question of regulatory authority in places where it has never been self-evident. As such, it opens up some very important analytical issues, not only for African studies but also for an anthropology of emergent economies worldwide."--Jane I.Guyer, International Journal of African Historical Studies
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xiii Chapter One: Introduction: An Anthropology of Regulation and Fiscal Relations 1 Chapter Two: Incivisme Fiscal 23 Chapter Three Tax-Price as a Technique of Government 48 Chapter Four Unsanctioned Wealth, or the Productivity of Debt 73 Chapter Five Fixing the Moving Targets of Regulation 100 Chapter Six The Unstable Terms of Regulatory Practice 129 Chapter Seven The Pluralization of Regulatory Authority 151 Conclusion 200 References 207 Index 227