The Real Economy

Abstract

The live act of business and the culture of realization, Deductions and counter-deductions in South Africa, Resisting numbers: The favela as an (un)quantifiable reality, What is a ‘real’ transaction in high-frequency trading, Soybean, bricks, dollars, and the reality of money in Argentina, A political anthropology of finance in cross-border, Corporate personhood and the competitive relation in antitrust, Making workers real on a South African border farm, How will we pay? Projective fictions and regimes of foresight in US college finance, Smuggling realities: On numbers, borders, and performances, The method of the real: What do we intend with ethnographic infrastructure?