Fiscal disobedience : an anthropology of economic regulation in Central Africa /

"Fiscal Disobedience represents a novel approach to the question of citizenship amid the changing global economy and the fiscal crisis of the nation-state. Focusing on economic practices in the Chad Basin of Africa, Janet Roitman combines thorough ethnographic fieldwork with sophisticated analy...

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Main Author: Roitman, Janet L. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2005]
Series:In-formation series.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. Introduction : an anthropology of regulation and fiscal relations
  • Ch. 2. Incivisme fiscal
  • Ch. 3. Tax-price as a technique of government
  • Ch. 4. Unsanctioned wealth, or the productivity of debt
  • Ch. 5. Fixing the moving targets of regulation
  • Ch. 6. The unstable terms of regulatory practice
  • Ch. 7. The pluralization of regulatory authority.