In Search of the Eternal Coin: A Long Finance View of History
In: The Eternal Coin - Long Finance (2010)
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In: The Eternal Coin - Long Finance (2010)
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The definitive account of the history of poverty finance' - Susanne Soederberg
Finance, mobile and digital technologies - or 'fintech' - are being heralded in the world of development by the likes of the IMF and World Bank as a silver bullet in the fight against poverty. But should we believe the hype?
A Critical History of Poverty Finance demonstrates how newfangled 'digital financial inclusion' efforts suffer from the same essential flaws as earlier iterations of neoliberal 'financial inclusion'. Relying on artificially created markets that simply aren't there among the world's most disadvantaged economic actors, they also reinforce existing patterns of inequality and uneven development, many of which date back to the colonial era.
Bernards offers an astute analysis of the current fintech fad, contextualised through a detailed colonial history of development finance, that ultimately reveals the neoliberal vision of poverty alleviation for the pipe dream it is.
In: Foreign affairs: an American quarterly review, Band 69, Heft 4, S. 182
ISSN: 2327-7793
In: Annual review of anthropology, Band 43, Heft 1, S. 465-482
ISSN: 1545-4290
We review here recent developments in the anthropology of money and finance, listing its achievements, shortcomings, and prospects, while referring back to the discipline's founders a century ago. We take our departure from the work of Marcel Mauss and Karl Polanyi, both of whom combined openness to ethnographic research with a vision of world history as a whole. Since the 1960s, anthropologists have tended to restrict themselves to niche fields and marginal debates. The anthropological study of money and ethnographies of finance, in particular, have been the focus of much research since the 1980s. Despite taking on new objects and directions, anthropologists still find it difficult to connect their situated analyses with global processes and world history. We propose some conceptual and empirical directions for research that would seek to overcome these limitations by integrating ethnography more closely with human history, while stressing the importance of money in shaping world society and attempts to reform it.
In: 'Recovering the History of Human Rights: Public Finances and Human Rights' in A. Nolan, R. O'Connell and C. Harvey (eds.) Human Rights and Public Finance (Hart 2013)
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In: Oxford scholarship online
In: Economics and Finance
The social returns of investment in water, roads and railways are apparent in the long run, but this distant horizon poses problems to governments and investors. This volume explores the different historical paths to solving the problem of infrastructure finance in Europe, from the fall of the Roman Empire to the end of the 20th century.
In: Palgrave studies in economic history
This book analyses the economic history of the nuclear program in Spain, from its inception in the 1950s to the nuclear moratorium in the early 1980s, and investigates the economic, financial and business origins of atomic energy in Spain. The actual dimension of the Spanish nuclear sector, which exceeded the relative economic and political clout of the country at the time, reflects the combination of domestic and foreign interests. Each contribution inserts the Spanish case within the international development of nuclear energy, but also shows how the Spanish nuclear program came about, how it was financed, and who the main architects and beneficiaries at the industrial, financial, commercial and banking levels were; all without losing sight of the energy policy aspects such as energy mix and energy security. The volume provides useful analysis and sources for a variety of core fields across the social sciences including economic history of post-war Europe, industrial and energy policy, international relations and history of technology.--
In: Business history, Band 55, Heft 4, S. 524-542
ISSN: 1743-7938
In: The economic history review, Band 64, Heft 2, S. 709-710
ISSN: 1468-0289
In: National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
In: Palgrave studies in economic history
In: Research in the history of economic thought and methodology volume 38, A
In: Cornell studies in money
In: Millennium: journal of international studies, Band 35, Heft 3, S. 809-811
ISSN: 0305-8298