Knotty Financiers: A Comparative Take on Finance, Value, and Inequality

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    Abstract

    This article argues for a larger comparative vision in the contemporary studies of finance, one that draws on financial practices observed in and theories developed from both capitalist and non-capitalist contexts. Much present-day ethnographic work on finance, due to specific analytic framing devices, has largely not considered why and how finance also occurs in non-capitalist contexts. In turn, the article compares Inka knot-record accounting to the accounting that occurs in present-day, private-equity led leveraged buyouts to show that people coercively use the same tools of abstraction in radically different cultural contexts. Moreover, this realization allows for better theorization of finance’s emergence and role in a given society.
    OriginalsprogEngelsk
    Artikelnummer101205
    TidsskriftJournal of Anthropological Archaeology
    Vol/bind59
    Antal sider9
    ISSN0278-4165
    DOI
    StatusUdgivet - sep. 2020

    Emneord

    • Finance
    • Comparison
    • Private equity
    • Inka

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