The 'age of the market' and the regime of debt: The role of credit in the transformation of pastoral Mongolia

Social Anthropology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 458-473

  Sneath, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Credit; Debt; Development; Finance; Mongolia; Neoliberalism; Political economy; Primitive globalization; Transaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868600535     PISSN: 09640282     EISSN: 14698676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8676.2012.00223.x     Document Type: Article

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