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Author Samman, Amin, author.

Title History in financial times / Amin Samman
Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2019]
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 211 pages)
Series Currencies : new thinking for financial times
Currencies (Series)
Contents Introduction : "We live in financial times" -- Crisis thinking -- Historical imagination -- Return and recurrence -- Repetition and revelation -- Names of history
Summary "Critical theorists of economy tend to understand the history of market society as a succession of distinct stages. This vision of history rests on a chronological conception of time whereby each present slips into the past so that a future might take its place. This book argues that the linear mode of thinking misses something crucial about the dynamics of contemporary capitalism. Rather than each present leaving a set past behind it, the past continually circulates through and shapes the present, such that historical change emerges through a shifting panorama of historical associations, names, and dates. The result is a strange feedback loop between now and then, real and imaginary. Demonstrating how this idea can give us a better purchase on financial capitalism in the post-crisis era, History in Financial Times traces the diverse modes of history production at work in the spheres of financial journalism, policymaking, and popular culture. Paying particular attention to narrative and to notions of crisis, recurrence, and revelation, Amin Samman gives us a novel take on the relation between historical thinking and critique"--Publisher's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from resource home page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed February 10, 2021)
Subject Finance -- History
Financial crises -- History
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.
History -- Philosophy.
Economics -- Philosophy
Economics -- Philosophy
Finance
Financial crises
History -- Philosophy
Wirtschaftsentwicklung
Finanzkrise
Krisentheorie
Weltwirtschaft
Wirtschaftsgeschichtsschreibung
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018050876
ISBN 1503609464
9781503609464