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Bear, Laura,

Navigating Austerity : currents of debt along a South Asian river / Laura Bear - California : Stanford University Press, ©2015 - xi, 244 pages : illustrations, maps 24cm. - Anthropology of policy Stanford, Calif. .

Unpredictable circulations : the bureaucratic life of fiscal crisis --
Nationalist melancholia and the limits of austerity public sector unionism --
Family capital, state pedigree and the limits of austerity public goods --
Making a river of gold : speculation, friendship and entrepreneurial society --
Ajeet's accident : timespaces of global trade and ethical fixes in circulation --
Uncertain futures and eternal returns : timespaces of production in an informalised shipyard --
Conclusion 1 : towards a new social calculus --
Conclusion 2 : sovereign debt, equality and redistribution : a global social calculus.

ISBN: 9780804795531

Publisher. No.: Segment Book Distributors :22, Prakash Deep 1st Floor Delhi Medical Association Road Daryaganj New Delhi

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Economics
Public finance
Debts, Public -- Moral and ethical aspects -- India.
Fiscal policy -- Moral and ethical aspects -- India.
Hugli River India -- Economic conditions.
India -- Hugli River.
Economic policy.
Business & Economics -- Public Finance.
Fiscal policy -- Moral and ethical aspects -- India.

Dewey Class. No.: 336.3409 BEA