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New Perspectives on Pakistan's Political Economy\n\nState, Class and Social Change\n\nMakes a major intervention in debates around the nature of the political economy of Pakistan, focusing on its contemporary social dynamics.\n\nMatthew McCartney (Edited by), S. Akbar Zaidi (Edited by)\n\n9781108486552 (SKU 3293082), Cambridge University Press\n\nHardback, published 19 September 2019\n\n286 pages\n23.7 x 16 x 2.4 cm, 0.5 kg\n\nThis volume makes a major intervention in the debates around the nature of the political economy of Pakistan, focusing on its contemporary social dynamics. This is the first comprehensive academic analysis of Pakistan's political economy after thirty-five years, and addresses issues of state, class and society, examining gender, the middle classes, the media, the bazaar economy, urban spaces and the new elite. The book goes beyond the contemporary obsession with terrorism and extremism, political Islam, and simple 'civilian\u2013military relations', and looks a]