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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

Tales from Albarado

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      Publisher: Cornell University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 15/08/2020
      ISBN13: 9781501750342, 978-1501750342
      ISBN10: 1501750348
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      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents

      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

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