Big Capital in an Unequal World: The Micropolitics of Wealth in Pakistan

Big Capital in an Unequal World: The Micropolitics of Wealth in Pakistan
ISBN-10
1789206170
ISBN-13
9781789206173
Category
Social Science
Pages
206
Language
English
Published
2020-01-01
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Author
Rosita Armytage

Description

Following the hidden lives of the global “1%”, this book examines the networks, social practices, marriages, and machinations of the elite in Pakistan. In doing so, it reveals the daily, even mundane, ways in which elites contribute to and shape the inequality that characterizes the modern world. Operating in a rapidly developing economic environment, the experience of Pakistan’s wealthiest and most powerful members contradicts widely held assumptions that economic growth is leading to increasingly impersonalized and globally standardized economic and political structures.

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