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 Contract

Nicolette Makovicky and Robin Smith



Chapter 1. Taxes for Independence: Rejecting a Fiscal Model of Reciprocity in Peri-urban Bolivia

Miranda Sheild Johansson



Chapter 2. God's Delivery State: Taxes, Tithes, and a Rightful Return in Urban Ghana

Anna-Riikka Kauppinen



Chapter 3. The Fiscal Commons: Tax Evasion, the State, and Commoning in a Catalonian Cooperative

Vinzenz Bäumer Escobar



Chapter 4. Contesting the Social Contract: Tax Reform and Economic Governance in Istria, Croatia

Robin Smith



Chapter 5. Into and Out of Citizenship, through Personal Tax Payments: Romanian Migrants’ Leveraging of British Self-Employment

Dora-Olivia Vicol



Chapter 6. The Worth of the ‘While’: Time and Taxes in a Finnish Timebank

Matti Eräsaari



Afterword: Putting Together the Anthropology of Tax and the Anthropology of Ethics

Soumhya Venkatesan



Index