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Spectacular Speculation is a history and sociological analysis of the semantics of speculation from 1870 to 1930, when speculation began to assume enormous importance in popular culture. Informed by the work of Luhmann, Foucault, Simmel and Deleuze, it looks at how speculation was translated into po...

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1. Verfasser: Stäheli, Urs, 1966-
Weitere Verfasser: Savoth, Eric
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
German
Veröffentlicht: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2013.
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Zusammenfassung:Spectacular Speculation is a history and sociological analysis of the semantics of speculation from 1870 to 1930, when speculation began to assume enormous importance in popular culture. Informed by the work of Luhmann, Foucault, Simmel and Deleuze, it looks at how speculation was translated into popular knowledge and charts the discursive struggles of making speculation a legitimate economic practice. Noting that the vocabulary available to discuss the concept was not properly economic, the book reveals the underside of putting it into words. Speculation's success depended upon no.
Beschreibung:Translation of: Spektakuläre Spekulation : das Populäre der Ökonomie.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (vi, 299 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780804788250
0804788251
0804771316
9780804771313

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