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100 1 $aMitchell, Timothy,$d1955-
245 10 $aRule of experts :$bEgypt, techno-politics, modernity /$cTimothy Mitchell.
260 $aBerkeley :$bUniversity of California Press,$cc2002.
300 $axiii, 413 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
500 $aParts of the text previously published.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 381-401) and index.
505 0 $aPara-sites of capitalism -- Can the mosquito speak? -- Principles true in every country -- The character of calculability -- Peasant studies -- The invention and reinvention of the peasant -- Nobody listens to a poor man -- Heritage and violence -- Fixing the economy -- The object of development -- The market's place -- Dreamland.
520 $a"Can one explain the power of global capitalism without attributing to capital a logic and coherence it does not have? Can one account for the powers of techno-science in terms that do not merely reproduce its own understanding of the world? Rule of Experts examines these questions through a series of interrelated essays focused on Egypt in the twentieth century. These explore the way malaria, sugar cane, war, and nationalism interacted to produce the techno-politics of the modern Egyptian state; the forms of debt, discipline, and violence that founded the institution of private property; the methods of measurement, circulation, and exchange that produced the novel idea of a national "economy," yet made its accurate representation impossible; the stereotypes and plagiarisms that created the scholarly image of the Egyptian peasant; and the interaction of social logics, horticultural imperatives, powers of desire, and political forces that turned programs of economic reform in unanticipated directions."$uhttp://books.google.com/books?id=B_RyU1Z4AwIC.
651 0 $aEgypt$xEconomic policy.
650 0 $aPeasants$zEgypt$xHistory$y20th century.
651 0 $aEgypt$xEconomic conditions$y1919-1952.
651 0 $aEgypt$xEconomic conditions$y1952-
651 0 $aEgypt$xPolitics and government$y20th century.
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast
776 08 $iOnline version:$aMitchell, Timothy, 1955-$tRule of experts.$dBerkeley : University of California Press, ©2002$z9780520928251$w(OCoLC)52861449
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