The Age of Fraud

Jörg Wiegratz | November 16, 2018

Fraud is an issue that haunts many contemporary societies around the globe, including in East Africa. I have been researching the topic of economic trickery for over a decade in Uganda, and published a number of articles, books and opinion pieces about the matter.

As many of you might [...]

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IPE’s Strategic Silence on Capitalism and Moral Order

Jörg Wiegratz | March 30, 2017

To-date, political economy scholarship has only cautiously engaged with matters of moral economy in contemporary society.  This is strikingly different from the recent surge in respective scholarship and debates in anthropology and sociology.  The moral properties of capitalist economy at a [...]

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