Legacies, Logics, Logistics
Essays in the Anthropology of the Platform Economy

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Part 1: Foundations
Chapter 1 The Themes of Legacies, Logics, Logistics
Chapter 2 “Toiling Ingenuity”: Food Regulation in Britain and Nigeria
Part 2: Public Economic Cultures
Chapter 3 “The Craving for Intelligibility”: Speech and Silence on the Economy under Structural Adjustment and Military Rule in Nigeria (with LaRay Denzer)
Chapter 4 Prophecy and the Near Future: Thoughts on Macroeconomic, Evangelical, and Punctuated Time
Chapter 5 From Market to Platform: Shifting Analytics for the Study of Current Capitalism
Part 3: Cultures of Calculation
Chapter 6 The Eruption of Tradition? On Ordinality and Calculation
Chapter 7 Percentages and Perchance: Archaic Forms in the Twenty-First Century
Part 4: Platforms
Chapter 8 Intricacy and Impasse: Dilemmas of Value in Soft-Currency Economies
Chapter 9 Indexing People to Money: The Fate of “Shelter”
Part 5: Toward Ethnography and the People’s Economies
Chapter 10 Composites, Fictions, and Risk: Toward an Ethnography of Price
Chapter 11 Soft Currencies, Cash Economies, New Monies: Past and Present
Chapter 12 Is the “Real Economy” Disaggregating, Disappearing, or Deviating?
Notes
References
Index
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