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With an ethnography of the largest contraband economy in the Americas running through Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, Outlaw Capital shows how transgressive economies and gray spaces are central to globalized capitalism. A key site on the China-Paraguay-Brazil trade route, Ciudad del Este moves billions of dollars&#8217 worth of consumer goods&#8213everything from cell phones to whiskey&#8213providing cheap transit to Asian manufacturers and invisible subsidies to Brazilian consumers. A vibrant popular economy of Paraguayan street vendors and Brazilian &#8220ant contrabandistas&#8221 capture some of the city&#8217s profits, contesting the social distribution of wealth through an insurgent urban epistemology of use, need, and care. Yet despite the city&#8217s centrality, it is narrated as a backward, marginal, and lawless place. Outlaw Capital contests these sensationalist stories, showing how uneven development and the Paraguayan state made Ciudad de Este a gray space of profitable

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