阿尔巴拉多的故事重温了20世纪90年代初阿尔巴尼亚激动和失落的时代，当时大约有十几家金字塔公司倒闭，导致该国陷入无政府状态和近乎内战。为了更好地了解各行各业的人是如何投资这些金融计划的，以及这些计划是如何与日常交易、梦想和愿望交织在一起的，Smoki Musaraj研究了全球资本边缘的金融投机的实质性、社会性和暂时性。她认为，这些计划的投机金融实践是由官方金融基础设施（如后社会主义自由市场改革）、非官方经济（如跨国汇款）以及历史上特定的创业形式、跨国社会网络和对欧洲现代性的渴望促成的。总的来说，这些参与阿尔巴尼亚计划的琐碎故事有助于理解新自由主义资本主义是一种异质的经济形态，它将资本主义和非资本主义形式的积累和投资交织在一起。
Tales from Albarado: Ponzi Logics of Accumulation in Postsocialist Albania
Tales from Albarado revisits times of excitement and loss in early 1990s Albania, in which about a dozen pyramid firms collapsed and caused the country to fall into anarchy and a near civil war. To gain a better understanding of how people from all walks of life came to invest in these financial schemes and how these schemes became intertwined with everyday transactions, dreams, and aspirations, Smoki Musaraj looks at the materiality, sociality, and temporality of financial speculations at the margins of global capital. She argues that the speculative financial practices of the schemes were enabled by official financial infrastructures (such as the postsocialist free-market reforms), by unofficial economies (such as transnational remittances), as well as by historically specific forms of entrepreneurship, transnational social networks, and desires for a European modernity. Overall, these granular stories of participation in the Albanian schemes help understand neoliberal capitalism as a heterogeneous economic formation that intertwines capitalist and noncapitalist forms of accumulation and investment.
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