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Economy and Society Volume 49, 2020 - Issue 1: Speculation: A political economy of technologies of imagination
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Speculations on infrastructure: from colonial public works to a post-colonial global asset class on the Indian railways 1840–2017

Laura Bear Laura Bear, Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE, United Kingdom. E-mail: [email protected]View further author information
Pages 45-70 | Published online: 21 Feb 2020

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