Dark Finance: Illiquidity and Authoritarianism at the Margins of Europe

by Fabio Mattioli

Book Overview

Dark Finance offers one of the first ethnographic accounts of financial expansion and its political impacts in Eastern Europe. Following workers, managers, and investors in the Macedonian construction sector, Fabio Mattioli shows how financialization can empower authoritarian regimes--not by making money accessible to everyone, but by allowing a small group of oligarchs to monopolize access to international credit and promote a cascade of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503612937
• ISBN13: 9781503612938
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"