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100 1  Cox, John|c(Anthropologist),|eauthor. 
245 10 Fast Money Schemes :|bHope and Deception in Papua New 
       Guinea /|cJohn Cox. 
264  1 [Place of publication not identified] :|bIndiana 
       University Press,|c[2018] 
264  4 |c©2018 
300    1 online resource (264 pages). 
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490 1  Framing the global series 
506    Access limited to subscribing institutions. 
520    "A history and anthropological analysis of one of Papua 
       New Guinea's worst Ponzi schemes in the late 1990s. In the
       late 1990s and early 2000s a wave of Ponzi schemes swept 
       through Papua New Guinea, Australia, and the Solomon 
       Islands. The most notorious scheme, U-Vistract, attracted 
       many thousands of investors, enticing them with promises 
       of one percent interest to be paid monthly. Its founder, 
       Noah Musingku, was a charismatic leader who promoted the 
       scheme as a form of Christian mission and as the basis for
       establishing an independent kingdom. Fast Money Schemes 
       uses in-depth interviews with investors, newspaper 
       accounts, and participant observation to understand the 
       scheme's appeal from the point of view of those who 
       invested and lost, showing that organizers and investors 
       alike understood the scheme as a way of accessing and 
       participating in a global economy. John Cox delivers a 
       "post-village" ethnography that gives insight into the 
       lives of urban, middle-class Papua New Guineans, a group 
       that is not familiar to US readers and that has seldom 
       been a focus of anthropological interest. The book's 
       concern with understanding the interweaving of morality, 
       finance, and aspirations shared by a global cosmopolitan 
       middle class has wide resonance beyond studies of Papua 
       New Guinea and anthropology."--|cProvided by Freading. 
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650  0 Ponzi schemes|zPapua New Guinea|xHistory. 
650  0 Swindlers and swindling|zPapua New Guinea|xHistory. 
650  7 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.|2bisacsh 
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830  0 Framing the global book series. 
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