Marginal Gains: Monetary Transactions in Atlantic Africa

By J. Guyer. 2004

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The digital revolution in financial inclusion: international development in the fintech era (2017, unknown): “In 2014, AFI announced that ‘the Maya Declaration has revolutionized international development cooperation by empowering countries to set their own goals and targets ’ for FI (AFI 2014b: 3).”
Moral economy: Rethinking a radical concept (2016, background): “…that constitute the standard space of observation for anthropologists are always permeated with ambiguous logics, where self-interest, competition, market commensurability and commodification overlap with dependency, norms and incommensurable values (Gregory, 1997; Guyer, 2004; Gudeman, 2008).”
Economization, part 1: shifting attention from the economy towards processes of economization (2009, methodology): “Like Thomas, Guyer (2004) is interested in studying the interactions between people and things in order to account for the process of valuation.”
Rural Livelihoods in South Africa: Complexity, Vulnerability and Differentiation (2013, unknown): “Indeed, throughout Africa, much economic activity is subject to forms of economic governance outside the purview of the formal state (Guyer 2004; Roitman 2005).”
Economization, part 2: a research programme for the study of markets (2010, background): “…valuations (which include other prices), even when they are engaged in bilateral transactions, opens up new avenues for understanding pricing (Guyer, 2004).26 This particular calculation often consists of elaborating and applying formulas that constitute preferred research subjects (Lépinay…”
Introduction: Number as Inventive Frontier (2010, background): “But of one thing we can be sure: the spiritual dimensions would not be irrelevant to the equations (Guyer, 2004; Barber, 2007).”
The Anthropology of Money (2006, background): “Even specifying whether we are dealing with nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio scales when we see money’s numbers in specific exchange modalities would go far toward moving the discussion of calculation away from the money-as-acid hypothesis (see Guyer 2004, p. 49).”
The Anthropology of Credit and Debt (2010, background): “Bourdieu (1972, pp. 3– 9), Guyer (2004), Gell (1992), and Hart (2001), as well as all economists, have insisted that the crucial defining feature of credit/debt is its ability to link the present to the past and the future.”