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The Telling Challenge of Africa's Economies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2013

Helen Verran
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Abstract:

This contribution to the special issue of ASR on Jane Guyer's Marginal Gains (2004) takes up two recent, and radically different, constructivist contributions to the field of economic sociology—those of Phillip Mirowski and Michel Callon. The article makes use of Marginal Gains to interrogate both these analytics, asking if they can meet the challenge posed by the diversity and multiplicity of African popular economic practice.

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African Studies Review , Volume 50 , Issue 2 , September 2007 , pp. 163 - 182
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Copyright © African Studies Association 2007

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