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Capital and time : for a new critique of neoliberal reason, Martijn Konings

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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 step in to constrain speculative behaviors. On the contrary, Martijn Konings argues, the state has always been deeply implicated in the speculative dynamics of economic life. Through these insights, he offers a new interpretation of both the economic problems that emerged during the 1970s and the way that neoliberalism responded to them. Neoliberalism's strength derives from its intuition that there is no position that transcends the secular logic of risk, and from its insistence that individuals actively engage that logic. Not only is the critique of speculation misleading as a general approach; it is also incapable of recognizing how American capitalism has come to embrace speculation and has thus been able to generate new kinds of order and governance.--
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eng
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174 pages
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  • 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
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9781503604438
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Capital and time : for a new critique of neoliberal reason
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Capital and time
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for a new critique of neoliberal reason
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Martijn Konings
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eng
Summary
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 step in to constrain speculative behaviors. On the contrary, Martijn Konings argues, the state has always been deeply implicated in the speculative dynamics of economic life. Through these insights, he offers a new interpretation of both the economic problems that emerged during the 1970s and the way that neoliberalism responded to them. Neoliberalism's strength derives from its intuition that there is no position that transcends the secular logic of risk, and from its insistence that individuals actively engage that logic. Not only is the critique of speculation misleading as a general approach; it is also incapable of recognizing how American capitalism has come to embrace speculation and has thus been able to generate new kinds of order and governance.--
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1975-
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Konings, Martijn
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index present
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non fiction
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Currencies: new thinking for financial times
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  • Speculation
  • Capital market
  • Finance
  • Capitalism
  • Neoliberalism
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Capital and time : for a new critique of neoliberal reason, Martijn Konings
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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
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ocn985078618
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22 cm.
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174 pages
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9781503604438
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unmediated
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rdamedia
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(OCoLC)985078618
Label
Capital and time : for a new critique of neoliberal reason, Martijn Konings
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
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  • nc
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rdacarrier
Content category
text
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  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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
Control code
ocn985078618
Dimensions
22 cm.
Extent
174 pages
Isbn
9781503604438
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)985078618

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