Corporate scandals since the 1990s have made it clear that economic wrongdoing is more common in Western societies than might be expected. This volume examines the relationship between such wrong-doing and the neoliberal orientations, policies, and practices that have been influential since around 1980, considering whether neoliberalism has affected the likelihood that people and firms will act in ways that many people would consider wrong. It furthermore asks whether ideas of economic right and wrong have become so fragmented and localized that collective judgement has become almost impossible.

James G. Carrier is Associate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University. His publications on economy and society include Gifts and Commodities: Exchange and Western Capitalism Since 1700 (Routledge, 1995), Meanings of the Market (Berg, 1997, ed.), Ethical Consumption: Social Value and Economic Practice (Berghahn, 2012, ed. with P. Luetchford) and Anthropologies of Class (Cambridge, 2015, ed. with D. Kalb).

Preface

Introduction: Economy, Crime and Wrong in a Neoliberal Era
James G. Carrier

Chapter 1. Marketing Clientelism vs Corruption: Pharmaceutical Off-label Promotion on Trial
Kalman Applbaum

Chapter 2. The Measure of Sociality: Quantification, Control and Economic Deviance
Emil A. Røyrvik

Chapter 3. Under Pressure: Financial Supervision in the Post-2008 European Union
Daniel Seabra Lopes

Chapter 4. Of Taxation, Instability, Fraud and Calculation
Thomas Cantens

Chapter 5. Marketing Marijuana: Prohibition, Medicalization and the Commodity
Michael Polson

Chapter 6. Neoliberal Citizenship and the Politics of Corruption: Redefining Informal Exchange in Romanian Healthcare
Sabina Stan

Chapter 7. Neoliberalism, Violent Crime and the Moral Economy of Migrants
Kathy Powell

Chapter 8. How Does Neoliberalism Relate to Unauthorized Migration? The U.S.-Mexico Case
Josiah McC. Heyman

Conclusion: All That is Normal Melts Into Air: Rethinking Neoliberal Rules and Deviance
Steven Sampson

Index