The Myopia of “Diverse Economies”, or a Critique of the “Informal Economy”

By M. Samers. 2005

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Marketing, Sociology and Political Science

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Karolos-Iosif Kavoulakos
2. Giorgos Gritzas
3. Roger Lee
4. Z. Slavnić
5. Andrew Leyshon
6. Colin Williams
7. A. Roy

In Marketing

1. Z. Slavnić
2. Karolos-Iosif Kavoulakos
3. Giorgos Gritzas
4. Andrew Leyshon

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Karolos-Iosif Kavoulakos
2. Giorgos Gritzas
3. Andrew Leyshon
4. Z. Slavnić
5. J. Gibson‐Graham
6. Roger Lee
7. Colin Williams
8. A. Roy

Citations in the corpus

• Diverse economies and alternative spaces: An overview of approaches and practices (2016, background): “Focusing on the informal sector of the economy, Samers (2005) argues that not all economic practices included in diverse economies are less exploitative than capitalism.”
• POLITICAL ECONOMY OF INFORMALIZATION (2010, background): “…transition or post-Communist economies.2 With regard to the informalization of advanced economies, despite scepticism on the part of some scholars (Samers 2004, 2005), there is a growing consensus that the informal economy in developed countries has been expanding since the late 1980s (Portes et…”
• Gibson-Graham, J.K. 1996: The end of capitalism (as we knew it): a feminist critique of political economy. Oxford: Blackwell (2010, background): “…sought to provide exactly the form of recognition and give voice to non- or anti-capitalist activities that Gibson-Graham call for in The end (see, for example, Leyshon et al., 2003; Leyshon, 2005; Oberhauser, 2005; Williams, 2005; Gibson-Graham, 2006; McCarthy, 2006; but see also Samers, 2005).”