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Economy and Society Volume 49, 2020 - Issue 1: Speculation: A political economy of technologies of imagination
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Real estate speculation: volatile social forms at a global frontier of capital

Caroline Humphrey Caroline Humphrey, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Free School Lane, CambridgeCB2 3RF, United Kingdom. E-mail: [email protected]View further author information
Pages 116-140 | Published online: 18 Feb 2020

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