"Very nice paper, John, not least the concluding remarks on German bureaucracy. More later."
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John Conroy posted a blog postThe idea of the informal economy: a further work in progress report
More on the idea of the informal economy: My earlier post (14 April) was a work-in-progress report on a study of 'the idea of the informal economy', with particular reference to Melanesia (and specifically to pre-modern Papua New Guinea). In time it will be extended to the modern (colonial and post-colonial) period.That earlier post provided links to three papers which had appeared to that point. A fourth paper, titled "Preconditions for an informal economy: ‘trucking and bartering’ in New…See More
John Conroy commented on John Conroy's blog post The idea of the informal economy: a work in progress report"Glad to hear from you again, John. I see you've been commenting lately about the potential for modelling to systematize our thoughts about social networks. I take it your comment is not so much in relation to my own post, but rather an…"
John McCreery commented on John Conroy's blog post The idea of the informal economy: a work in progress report"See Ring Around the Klula [http://www.academia.edu/2038252/Ring_Around_the_Kula_An_Agent-Based_Modeling_Approach_to_Network_Formation].
P.S. A Google search for "social network analysis Kula Ring" turns up several additional items."
John Conroy posted a blog postThe idea of the informal economy: a work in progress report
I'm working on a series of studies concerned with the intellectual history of the 'informal economy', and its relevance to current concerns in Papua New Guinea (PNG; the eastern half of the island of New Guinea). I hope, eventually, to 'join up' these studies in an extended monograph.The first study in the series was the subject of an OAC online forum in April 2012. It dealt with Keith…See More
John Conroy replied to Keith Hart's discussion Conroy on informal economy (continued) in the group The Human Economy"Keith, you wrote that in your original account of informality, ‘I insisted that formal and informal dimensions of economic activity were inseparable, but I contributed to the objectification of my argument by delimiting my inquiry to the…"
John Conroy replied to Keith Hart's discussion Conroy on informal economy (continued) in the group The Human Economy"John, I appreciated your account of a childhood perched liminally between formal and informal activity. If we want to summon up 'in living memory' data, i'm sure a number of readers from 'industrial' countries would be able…"
John Conroy replied to Keith Hart's discussion Conroy on informal economy (continued) in the group The Human Economy"Keith, you wrote to me that: ‘You have read Stedman Jones on Webb and you prefer her secondhand evidence to my ... summary statement of something different’. And again, you wrote that ‘the idea that Manchester was clean (formal)…"
John Conroy replied to Keith Hart's discussion Conroy on informal economy (continued) in the group The Human Economy"I’m going to look back to Keith’s last intervention, in the debate on the OAC forum, a week ago. I said then that I didn’t want to risk an anti-climax. But since the discussion has a new lease of life, in the ‘Human…"
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A forum to discuss the agenda laid out in a new book, The Human Economy: A Citizen's Guide.
John Conroy replied to Justin Shaffner's discussion New OAC Online Seminar: John Conroy Intimations of the 'informal economy', 16th April to 28th April"Response to Knut, Mallika and Keith
Knut, the history of attempts to map and quantify the interactions between players in the economy go back at least to William Petty’s Political Arithmetick in the seventeenth century, and it is from him that…"
John Conroy replied to Justin Shaffner's discussion New OAC Online Seminar: John Conroy Intimations of the 'informal economy', 16th April to 28th April"Replies to Knut, Busani and John (McCleery)
To Knut: thanks for your intervention. Not for the first time in this exchange, I feel like an overmatched prize-fighter who is furiously back-peddling around the ring while he works out what punch to…"
John Conroy replied to Justin Shaffner's discussion New OAC Online Seminar: John Conroy Intimations of the 'informal economy', 16th April to 28th April"Keith, thanks for a searching set of questions. These go to the heart of my problems in drawing my larger argument together, and in imposing coherence on the ideas. I’ll try to respond to some of the issues you have raised (though some readers…"
John Conroy replied to Justin Shaffner's discussion New OAC Online Seminar: John Conroy Intimations of the 'informal economy', 16th April to 28th April"First, replies to John (McCreery), Philip (Swift) and Nathan (Dobson); then (separately) a response to Keith Hart:
John, thank you for your many insightful comments; you build your most recent comments around a description by Lukacs of the…"
John Conroy replied to Justin Shaffner's discussion New OAC Online Seminar: John Conroy Intimations of the 'informal economy', 16th April to 28th April"Justin asks ‘how the concept of the informal economy allowed one to identify the “same” sorts of activities in radically different contexts, from Victorian England to colonial New Guinea’. What these activities have in…"
John Conroy replied to Justin Shaffner's discussion New OAC Online Seminar: John Conroy Intimations of the 'informal economy', 16th April to 28th April"I thank Keith for absolving us from the task of reading the paper by Jiménez and Willerslev; also for directing our attention to the context in which the informal economy came to light – at the end of the long post-war economic boom in…"
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The idea of the informal economy: a further work in progress report
More on the idea of the informal economy: My earlier post (14 April) was a work-in-progress report on a study of 'the idea of the informal economy', with particular reference to Melanesia (and specifically to pre-modern Papua New Guinea). In time it will be extended to the modern (colonial and post-colonial) period.
That earlier post provided links to three papers which had appeared to that point. A fourth paper, titled "Preconditions for an informal economy: ‘trucking and bartering’…
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The idea of the informal economy: a work in progress report
I'm working on a series of studies concerned with the intellectual history of the 'informal economy', and its relevance to current concerns in Papua New Guinea (PNG; the eastern half of the island of New Guinea). I hope, eventually, to 'join up' these studies in an extended monograph.…
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- At 4:48am on March 15, 2012,
Keith Hart said…
Welcome to the OAC, John! Looking forward to your paper. Keith
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