There is evidence that economic fraud has, in recent years, become routine activity in the economies of both high- and low-income countries. Many business sectors in today's global economy are rife with economic crime.
Neoliberalism and the Moral Economy of Fraud shows how neoliberal policies, reforms, ideas, social relations and practices have engendered a type of sociocultural change across the globe which is facilitating widespread fraud. This book investigates the moral worlds of fraud in different social and geographical settings, and shows how contemporary fraud is not the outcome of just a few 'bad apples'. Authors from a range of disciplines including sociology, anthropology and political science, social policy and economics, employ case studies from the Global North and Global South to explore how particular values, morals and standards of behaviour rendered dominant by neoliberalism are encouraging the proliferation of fraud.
This book will be indispensable for those who are interested in political economy, development studies, economics, anthropology, sociology and criminology.
Chapter 1: Neoliberalism, Moral economy and Fraud - David Whyte and Jörg Wiegratz
Chapter 2: Economic wrong and economic debate in the neoliberal era - James G. Carrier
Chapter 3: 'After' the Crisis: morality plays and the renewal of business as usual - Steve Tombs
Chapter 4: Moral Economy, Unearned Income, and Legalized Corruption - Andrew Sayer
Chapter 5: The moral economy of post-socialist capitalism: professionals, rentiers and fraud - Balihar Sanghera
Chapter 6: Do they do evil? The moral economy of tax professionals - John Christensen
Chapter 7: Genealogy, Parasitism and Moral Economy: The Case of UK Supermarket Growth - Paul Jones and Michael Mair
Chapter 8: Transnational Tobacco Companies and the Moral Economy of Cigarette Smuggling - Chris Holden
Chapter 9: Troika, Austerity and the Reluctant Resort to Criminality in Greece - Steve Hall and Georgios Antonopoulos
Chapter 10: Entrepreneurialism, Corruption and Moral Order in the Criminal Justice System of the Democratic Republic of Congo - Maritza Felices-Luna
Chapter 11: Murder for gain: Commercial insurance and moralities in South Africa - Erik Bähre
Chapter 12: Economic freedom mis-sold: neoliberalism and the moral economies of the PPI scandal in the UK - David Ellis
Chapter 13: Seeking God's Blessings: Pentecostal Religious Discourses, Pyramidal Schemes and Money Scams in the Southeast of Benin Republic - Sitna Quiroz
Chapter 14: Producing Moral Ambiguity: State Illegality, Economic Growth, and Norm Change in Argentina's Sweatshop Business - Matias Dewey
Chapter 15: Public Good for Private Gain: Public sector reform, bureaucrats and discourses of moral accountability in post-socialist Central Europe - Nicolette Makovicky
Chapter 16: Fraudulent Values. Materialistic Bosses and the Support for Bribery and Tax Evasion - Christopher S. Swader
Chapter 17: The Moral Economy of Neoliberal Fraud - David Whyte and Jörg Wiegratz
