Beyond the Social Contract

Nicolette Makovicky is Director of Russian and East European Studies at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, University of Oxford. She is the editor of Neoliberalism, Personhood, and Postsocialism: Enterprising Selves in Changing Economies (Routledge, 2014), and co-editor of Slogans: Subjection, Subversion, and the Politics of Neoliberalism (Routledge, 2019).

• Introduction: Tax Beyond the Social ContractNicolette Makovicky and Robin SmithChapter 1. Taxes for Independence: Rejecting a Fiscal Model of Reciprocity in Peri-urban BoliviaMiranda Sheild JohanssonChapter 2. God's Delivery State: Taxes, Tithes, and a Rightful Return in Urban GhanaAnna-Riikka KauppinenChapter 3. The Fiscal Commons: Tax Evasion, the State, and Commoning in a Catalonian CooperativeVinzenz Bäumer EscobarChapter 4. Contesting the Social Contract: Tax Reform and Economic Governance in Istria, CroatiaRobin SmithChapter 5. Into and Out of Citizenship, through Personal Tax Payments: Romanian Migrants’ Leveraging of British Self-EmploymentDora-Olivia VicolChapter 6. The Worth of the ‘While’: Time and Taxes in a Finnish TimebankMatti EräsaariAfterword: Putting Together the Anthropology of Tax and the Anthropology of EthicsSoumhya VenkatesanIndex