Multilevel marketing and pyramid schemes promote the idea that participants can easily become rich. These popular economies turn ordinary people into advocates of their interests and missionaries of the American Dream. Marketing Hope looks at how different types of get-rich-quick schemes manifest themselves in a Siberian town. By focusing on their social dynamics, Leonie Schiffauer provides insights into how capitalist logic is learned and negotiated, and how it affects local realities in a post-Soviet environment.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Notes on Transliteration
Introduction
Chapter 1. Capitalism in Aga
Chapter 2. American Dream or Pyramid Scheme?
Chapter 3. Spiritual Capitalism
Chapter 4. Pyramids of Intimacy
Chapter 5. Pyramids and their Products
Chapter 6. Power in the Pyramids
Chapter 7. Multilevel Marketing, Pyramid Schemes and Capitalism
List of References
Index