[State at Wits] Polecon | Carruthers' Economy of Promises

[Keith Breckenridge]

Hoping the holiday is peaceful and restorative.

The first Polecon meeting next year will be on Wednesday, January 11, at
16:00, reading Bruce Carruthers' *The Economy of Promises: Trust, Power,
and Credit in America*.  This is a book that's been cooking for a long
time.  Carruthers' earlier book, City of Capital, is a deeply interesting
study of the politics of the English financial revolution.  The book is
available on Amazon and on Libgen.rs.

For our second meeting, in February, we'll read Usman's *Economic
diversification in Nigeria: the politics of building a post-oil economy *(a
great new study of the Lagos transformation, full of interesting lessons
for South Africans).   The book is open access here
<https://carnegieendowment.org/2022/06/30/economic-diversification-in-nigeria-politics-of-building-post-oil-economy-pub-87370>.


Take care.

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Keith Breckenridge  *W I S E R* - The Wits Institute for Social and
Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand | Pbag 3, PO Wits,
 Johannesburg, South Africa, 2050 | Phone +27(0)11-7174272 | Web:
wiser.wits.ac.za
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