Performing capital: Toward a cultural economy of popular and global finance. - Ebook. - Originally published in: 2007
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Main Author: Aitken, Rob (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan 2007
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PART I: PERFORMING CAPITAL * Performing Capital: An Introduction * Culture, Government, Capital * PART II: POPULAR FINANCE AND THE NATIONAL BODY * Geopolitics, Nation and Beyond: Performances of Security * 'A Vital Force': Popular Finance and the National Economy * PART III: POPULAR FINANCE, OWNERSHIP AND ECONOMICS OF INVESTMENT * 'A Direct Personal Stake': Mass Investment and the New York Stock Exchange * 'An Owner's Sense of Interest': The Ethics of Socially Responsible Investing * 'In Free-Enterprise...Free Is a Verb': Enterprise, Saving and Asset-Based Social Policy * Toward a Cultural Economy of Popular and Global Finance
This books reviews forms of capital 'popular finance' and argues that it is important, as a site at which capital is visible not as a macro-structural reality but as a category itself, which needs to be made and performed in the spaces where is does not already exist. 'Culture' is used to intervene into everyday spaces to develop capital there
Shortlisted for the International Political Economy Group book prize 2008
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