Neoliberal Moral Economy: Capitalism, Socio-Cultural Change a...

Neoliberal Moral EconomyCapitalism, Socio-Cultural Change and Fraud in Uganda\nAuthor(s): Jrg Wiegratz\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Rowman & Littlefield International\nISBN-13: 9781783488537, 978-1783488537\nSynopsis\nThis book offers a fresh take on a major question of global debate: what explains the rise in economic fraud in so many societies around the world? The author argues that the current age of fraud is an outcome of not only political-economic but also moral transformations that have taken place in societies reshaped by neoliberalism.\n\nUsing the case of Uganda, the book traces these socio-cultural and especially moral repercussions of embedding neoliberalism. Uganda offers an important case of investigation for three reasons: the high level of foreign intervention by donors, aid agencies, international organisations, NGOs and corporations that have tried to produce the first fully-fledged market society in Africa t.