The Known Economy

Romantics, Rationalists, and the Making of a World Scale
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-138-12349-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 218 Seiten, Format (B × H): 240 mm x 161 mm, Gewicht: 468 g

Reihe: CRESC

Why do critics and celebrants of globalization concur that international trade and finance represent an inexorable globe-bestriding force with a single logic? The Known Economy shows that both camps rest on the same ideas about how the world is scaled. Two centuries ago romantic and rationalist theorists concurred that the world was divided into discrete nations, moving at different rates toward a "modernity", split between love and money. Though differing over whether this history is tragedy or triumph, they united in projecting an empty "international" space in which a Moloch-like global capitalism could lurk.

The Known Economy tracks the colonial development of national accounting and re-examines the ways gender and heteronormativity are built in to economic representation. It re-interprets the post-WWII spread of standardized economic statistics as the project of international organizations looking over the shoulders of national governments, rather than the expanding power of national governments over populations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Danby, Colin (University of Washington, USA)

Danby, Colin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and acknowledgments

Introduction: Sarkozy versus GDP

Part 1: The Voice of Economy

Introduction to Part I

1. Love or Money

2. A Jewish Economy in Palestine

3. Body of the Nation

4. Shape of the World

5. Discovering Economies in British Africa

6. The IMF Makes the World

Part 2: Romantic Responses

Introduction to Part Two

7. Romantic Political Economy

8. Shock of the Modern

9. Jameson’s Postmodern

10. Spirit of Finance

Part 3: Opening Up

11. Time and Finance

12. Numbered Things

Über Autor(innen)

Colin Danby received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1997 and is currently Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington, Bothell. He has published articles in Post Keynesian theory, Feminist Economics, and Economic Anthropology.