The real economy : essays in ethnographic theory / edited by Federico Neiburg and Jane I. Guyer.

Federico Neiburg is professor of social anthropology at the Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction. The real in the real economy / Federico Neiburg and Jane Guyer. Chapter One. The live act of business and the culture of realization / Fabian Muniesa - - Chapter Two. Deductions and counter-deductions in South Africa / Deborah James - - Chapter Three. Resisting numbers: The favela as an (un)quantifiable reality / Eugénia Motta - - Chapter Four. What is a 'real' transaction in high-frequency trading / Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra - - Chapter Five. Soybean, bricks, dollars, and the reality of money in Argentina / Mariana Luzzi and Ariel Wilkis - - Chapter Six. A political anthropology of finance in cross-border investment in Shanghai / Horacio Ortiz - - Chapter seven. Corporate personhood and the competative relation in antitrust / Gustavo Onto - - Chapter Eight. Making workers real on a South African border farm / Maxim Bolt - - Chapter Nine. How will we pay? Projective fictions and regimes of foresight in US college finance / Caitlin Zaloom -- Chapter Ten. Smuggling realities: On numbers, borders, and performances / Fernando Rabossi. Afterword. The method of the real: What do we intend with ethnographic infrastructure? / Bill Maurer.