Rule of Experts

Description:

"Can one explain the power of global capitalism without attributing to capital a logic and coherence it does not have? Can one account for the powers of techno-science in terms that do not merely reproduce its own understanding of the world? Rule of Experts examines these questions through a series of interrelated essays focused on Egypt in the twentieth century. These explore the way malaria, sugar cane, war, and nationalism interacted to produce the techno-politics of the modern Egyptian state; the forms of debt, discipline, and violence that founded the institution of private property; the methods of measurement, circulation, and exchange that produced the novel idea of a national "economy," yet made its accurate representation impossible; the stereotypes and plagiarisms that created the scholarly image of the Egyptian peasant; and the interaction of social logics, horticultural imperatives, powers of desire, and political forces that turned programs of economic reform in unanticipated directions."

subjects: Economic policy,  Peasants,  History,  Peasantry,  Peasants, egypt,  Egypt, economic conditions,  Egypt, politics and government,  Economic conditions,  Politics and government,  Paysannerie,  Histoire,  Politique économique,  Conditions économiques,  Politique et gouvernement,  POLITICAL SCIENCE,  Public Policy,  BUSINESS & ECONOMICS,  Government & Business,  Development,  Economic Development,  Business Development,  Structural Adjustment,  General,  Economic history,  Wirtschaftspolitik,  Moderne,  Politieke situatie,  Peasants--history,  Peasants--egypt--history--20th century,  Hc830 .m587 2002,  338.962

Places: Egypt