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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.
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Performing Capital
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Popular Finance and the National Body
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Popular Finance, Ownership, and Economies of Investment
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Conclusion: Toward a Cultural Economy of Popular and Global Finance
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Reviews
"Rob Aitken's work will leave readers in little doubt that 'finance capital' is not some coherent and extra-ordinary force that occupies a unique place outside of 'real' political-economic life, but is precariously assembled and visualised through the mundane performances of saving and self-government. Conceptually incisive and empirically rich, Performing Capital is essential reading for political economists and for all who are concerned with financial markets and the power of Wall Street"
- Paul Langley, author of World Financial Orders and The Everyday Life of Global Finance"This is a wonderful account of the constitution of global finance in diverse spaces of everyday life. It is perhaps the first volume to take seriously the importance of visual culture to the history of finance. This book is an important addition to the growing literature on the interdisciplinary study of financial practice - and a good read!"
- Dr Marieke de Goede, Department of European Studies, University of Amsterdam
About the author
ROB AITKEN is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Alberta, Canada. His research interests lie at the intersection of International Political Economy and Cultural Studies. His research focuses on the globalization of finance, the culture of everyday economic spaces and the relationship between governmentality and the making of economic space.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Performing Capital
Book Subtitle: Toward a Cultural Economy of Popular and Global Finance
Authors: Rob Aitken
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230607088
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Rob Aitken 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-7733-5Published: 17 October 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-53740-2Published: 17 October 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-60708-8Published: 01 October 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 247
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations
Topics: International Relations, International Political Economy, Economic Policy