Screen LibraryCapital and time : for a new critique of neoliberal reason /
Critics of capitalist finance tend to focus on its speculative character. Our financial markets, they lament, encourage irresponsible bets on the future that reflect no real underlying value. Why is it, then, that opportunities for speculative investment continue to proliferate in the wake of major...
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Stanford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Stanford, California : |
| Publication Dates: | [2018] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Currencies: new thinking for financial times
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Critics of capitalist finance tend to focus on its speculative character. Our financial markets, they lament, encourage irresponsible bets on the future that reflect no real underlying value. Why is it, then, that opportunities for speculative investment continue to proliferate in the wake of major economic crises? To make sense of this, Capital and Time advances an understanding of economy as a process whereby patterns of order emerge out of the interaction of speculative investments. Progressive critics have assumed that the state occupies a neutral, external position from which it can ste |
| Carrier Form: | 174 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-163) and index. |
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9781503604438 1503604438 9781503603905 1503603903 |
| Index Number: | HG6015 |
| CLC: | F830.9 |
| Call Number: | F830.9/K824 |
| Contents: | Introduction : beyond the critique of speculation -- Foundationalism and self-referentiality -- Constructions and performances -- Luhmannian considerations -- System, economy and governance -- Foucault beyond the critique of economism -- Time, investment and decision -- Minsky beyond the critique of speculation -- Practices of (central) banking, imaginaries of neutrality -- Lineages of US financial governance -- Hayek and neoliberal reason -- Neoliberal financial governance -- Capital and critique in neoliberal times. |