Through an ethnography of African migrants in the United States, this dissertation approaches economy, law and politics as performative contradictions of contemporary capitalism. Since currency replaced gold as the epicenter of international trade in the 1970s, finance has emerg…
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The dissertation aims to understand the political basis behind the initiation and longevity of the process of financialization of the Turkish economy in the post-1980 period. While some of the existing literature focuses on the role of states in initiating the process of financi…
In recent years, sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) have grown rapidly in importance. While SWFs are primarily used by governments to achieve macroeconomic/financial objectives, almost half of all SWFs are also used to further national economic developmental objectives. Such strategi…