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Author Vogl, Joseph, author

Title The specter of capital / Joseph Vogl ; translated by Robert Savage and Joachim Redner
Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource
Series Cultural memory in the present
Cultural memory in the present.
Contents The black swan -- Idyll of the market I -- Time and capital -- Idyll of the market II -- Economic and social reproduction -- Fault zone
Summary In his brilliant interdisciplinary analysis of the global financial crisis, Joseph Vogl aims to demystify finance capitalism-with its bewildering array of new instruments-by tracing the historical stages through which the financial market achieved its current autonomy. Classical and neoclassical economic theorists have played a decisive role here. Ignoring early warnings about the instability of speculative finance markets, they have persisted in their belief in the inherent equilibrium of the market, describing even major crises as mere aberrations or adjustments and rationalizing dubious fin
Notes Translation of: Das Gespenst des Kapitals
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
Subject Capitalism.
Rational expectations (Economic theory)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference.
Capitalism
Rational expectations (Economic theory)
Kapitalismus
Wirtschaftssystem
Systemkritik
Politische Ökonomie
Financiële ontwikkeling.
Kapitalisme.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780804792967
0804792968
Other Titles Gespenst des Kapitals. English