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Dark Finance: Illiquidity and Authoritarianism on the Outskirts of Europe

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Dark Finance: Illiquidity and Authoritarianism on the Outskirts of Europe
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In 2010, when much of the world was still reeling from the 2008 financial crisis, the government of impoverished Macedonia unexpectedly announced the launch of a massive and expensive capital reconstruction project—"Skopje 2014." How did the urban environment become a magical money-laundering device? How did people try to reclaim their agency in an atmosphere of financial illiquidity? Fabio Mattioli's book tells the stories of failed entrepreneurs, debt-ridden workers, and ambitious bureaucrats—and shows how financial expansion on the outskirts of Europe transformed identities, values, and hopes for economic prosperity into instruments of subjugation. Fabio Mattioli is a social anthropologist, lecturer in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Melbourne, and a research fellow at the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Ethics. The book received an Honorable Mention from the American Anthropological Association in 2021 and a Society for Economic Anthropology (SEA) Award in 2023.
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