This book offers a fresh take on a major question of global debate:
what explains the rise in economic fraud in so many societies around
the world? The author argues that the current age of fraud is an
outcome of not only political-economic but also moral transformations
that have taken place in societies reshaped by neoliberalism. Using
the case of Uganda, the book traces these socio-cultural and
especially moral repercussions of embedding neoliberalism. Uganda
offers an important case of investigation for three reasons: the high
level of foreign intervention by donors, aid agencies, international
organisations, NGOs and corporations that have tried to produce the
first fully-fledged market society in Africa there; the country’s
reputation as having adopted neoliberal reforms most extensively, and
the intensification of fraud in many sectors of the economy since the
early 2000s. The book explores the rise and operation of the
neoliberal moral economy and its world of hard and fraudulent
practices. It analyses especially the moral-economic character of
agricultural produce markets in eastern Uganda. It shows that
neoliberal moral restructuring is a highly political, contested and
conflict-ridden process, predominantly works via recalibrating the
political-economic structure of a country, and deeply affects how
people think and go about earning a living and treat others with whom
they do business. The book offers an in-depth, data-based analysis of
the moral climate of a market society in motion and in so doing offers
insights and lessons for elsewhere in the Global South and North.
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ISBN
9781783488551
Publisert
2016
Utgave
1. utgave
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Vendor
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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