Spectacular Speculation : Thrills, the Economy, and Popular Discourse /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stäheli, Urs (Autor)
Otros Autores: Savoth, Eric
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]
Temas:
Finance > Social aspects > History.
Finance > Social aspects > United States > History.
Speculation > History.
Speculation > United States > History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Gambling and speculation: entertaining contingency?
  • Chapter 2. The normalization of "wild contingency": stabilizing the distinction between gambling and speculation
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 3. Charles Mackay: the spectacle of equality
  • Chapter 4. Speculative vistas: crowds and speculation in the united states during the nineteenth century
  • Chapter 5. Alone against the crowd: the communicative techniques of the contrarians
  • Chapter 6. The eroticism of the market and the gender of speculation
  • Chapter 7. The rhythm of the market
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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