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Markets in modern India: embedded, contested, pliable
Ajay Gandhi,Sebastian Schwecke +1 more
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Hundi/hawala: the problem of definition
TL;DR: In this article, a discussion explores the idea that hundi is more accurately described as an indigenous banking system endowed with a complex range of functions, but whose central purpose is trade.
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The Political Economy of the Raj, 1914-1947: The Economics of Decolonization in India.
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Behind the Curtain
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On the moral perils of exchange
TL;DR: A particularly striking example is provided by Taussig's discussion (1980) of the folklore of the Christianised Black peasantry of the Cauca valley in Columbia as mentioned in this paper, where peasants who work as wage-labourers on the big sugar plantations are supposed to enter into a pact with the devil by which they increase their production and earn a better wage; but this can only be spent on consumer goods and luxuries, for such money is barren and cannot be productively invested.
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Enterprise Culture in Neoliberal India : Studies in Youth, Class, Work and Media
TL;DR: Gooptu and Chakravarty as mentioned in this paper discuss the role of self-making in the formation of an enterprise culture in India's new economy, and discuss the relationship between self-learning and the creation of new subjectivities among IT aspirants.
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The Work of the New Economy: Consumers, Brands and Value Creation
TL;DR: In this paper, Latour et al. take up approaches that presuppose the embeddedness of economic action in shifting networks or assemblages of people and things (human and nonhuman actors), and that call attention to the agency distributed within such networks.
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Informal credit markets in India
Thomas A. Timberg,C. V. Aiyar +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted an extended survey of some of the informal credit markets of India and found that these markets are important both in their own right, as part of each country's financial system and because of their reciprocal relations with growing enterprises and the regulated financial sector.
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Asian Capital in the Age of European Domination: The Rise of the Bazaar, 1800–1914
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the history of the Chinese and Indian merchant bankers, and the Jews of the Islamic world and find that the impression that emerges is one of confrontation, at the higher level, between two gesellschaften: one of European origin, the other Eastern.