Rezension: Als Student befasste sich der Autor in den 1990er-Jahren mit der Getto-Ökonomie Chicagos und landete mit "Underground Economy" (BA 3/09) weltweit beachtlichen Erfolg. 1997 wechselte er, nun am Beginn einer viel versprechenden Professorenlaufbahn, an die Columbia University nach New...

Inhaltsverzeichnis: Politics of recuperation. An introduction / Francisco Martínez -- Recuperative modes of action: Reciprocity, dependence and resistance to austerity policies in rural Portugal / Ema Pires -- Beautiful people eat ugly fruit: Ugliness and the cracks of the system / André...

Why is it that, as the Chinese Communist Party has loosened its grip, abandoned its core beliefs, and marketized the economy, its membership has risen markedly along with the economic benefits of joining? We use three national household surveys, spanning eleven years, to answer this question...