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

[Keith Breckenridge]

Compliments on the new year, all.

Just a reminder, for those with the time and inclination, of the zoom
discussion tomorrow at 16:00 SA time of Bruce Carruthers' Economy of
Promises.

Here's the zoom link
https://wits-za.zoom.us/j/96414438335?pwd=L3FKaUVCZG1Da0hzWlc1Q3ZDa2Y1Zz09

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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



On Thu, 22 Dec 2022 at 11:55, Keith Breckenridge <keith at breckenridge.org.za>
wrote:

> 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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