Jörg Wiegratz

Neoliberal Moral Economy (eBook, PDF)

Capitalism, Socio-Cultural Change and Fraud in Uganda

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 375
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798881872458
• Artikelnr.: 74846691

Autorenporträt

Jörg Wiegratz is Lecturer in Political Economy of Global Development at the University of Leeds. He previously worked as a researcher and consultant in Uganda for the UN Industrial Development Organization, the Government of Uganda's Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Industry and the German Agency for Technical Cooperation, and as a Visiting Scholar at the Economic Policy Research Centre, Kampala. He is author of Uganda's Human Resource Challenge: Training, Business Culture and Economic Development, co-editor of Uganda: The dynamics of neoliberal transformations, and co-editor of Neoliberalism and the Moral Economy of Fraud. He has also published articles in New Political Economy, Journal of Agrarian Change, and Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE). He is a ROAPE editor, and coordinates the roape.net blog series on Economic trickery, fraud and crime in Africa, and Capitalism in Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction : Rethinking moral economy: capitalism and the question of
morals / 1. : Market-society-making: neoliberalism as a cultural programme
/ 2. Introducing Uganda: conflict, change and the neoliberal reforms / 3.
The making of a neoliberal moral economy: tracing the moral contours of the
new Uganda / 4. Neoliberalised markets and the intensification of fraud /
5. Neoliberal morals as weapons of the strong - the moral economy of power
/ 6. Neoliberalised worlds of business - the moral power of money / 7.
Exploiting vulnerability: The moral economy of business with the squeezed
bottom / 8. Seeing the neoliberal state: public-private partnerships of
fraud / 9. The struggle for de-neoliberalisation: cultural resistance,
moral turn-arounds, and the politics of moral economy / 10. Conclusion:
Locking-in the moral order of capitalism: market society forever?