Fast Money Schemes: Hope and Deception in Papua New Guinea (Tracking Globalization) - Softcover

Buch 13 von 22: Framing the Global

Cox, John

 
9780253026118: Fast Money Schemes: Hope and Deception in Papua New Guinea (Tracking Globalization)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0253026113 ISBN 13: 9780253026118
Verlag: Indiana University Press, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

In the late 1990s and early 2000s a wave of Ponzi schemes swept through Papua New Guinea, Australia, and the Solomon Islands. The most notorious scheme, U-Vistract, attracted many thousands of investors, enticing them with promises of 100 percent interest to be paid monthly. Its founder, Noah Musingku, was a charismatic leader who promoted the scheme as a form of Christian mission and as the basis for establishing an independent kingdom.


Fast Money Schemes uses in-depth interviews with investors, newspaper accounts, and participant observation to understand the scheme's appeal from the point of view of those who invested and lost, showing that organizers and investors alike understood the scheme as a way of accessing and participating in a global economy. John Cox delivers a "post-village" ethnography that gives insight into the lives of urban, middle-class Papua New Guineans, a group that is not familiar to US readers and that has seldom been a focus of anthropological interest. The book's concern with understanding the interweaving of morality, finance, and aspirations shared by a global cosmopolitan middle class has wide resonance beyond studies of Papua New Guinea and anthropology.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

John Cox is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Human Security and Social Change at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. He has more than twenty years of experience working in the Pacific region as a development practitioner and anthropologist.

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Verlag
Indiana University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0253026113
ISBN 13 
9780253026118
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Anzahl der Seiten
246
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