Neoliberalism and the Moral Economy of Fraud Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy Series

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

David Whyte is Professor of Socio-legal Studies at the University of Liverpool, UK.

Jörg Wiegratz is Lecturer in Political Economy of Global Development at the University of Leeds, UK.