Privatization: Jokes, Scandal, and absurdity in a time of rapid change

Ethnographies of Moral Reasoning: Living Paradoxes of a Global Age

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 42-65

  Alexander, Catherine ^a  

^a NONE   (Kazakhstan)

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230617957     Document Type: Chapter

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