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Realizing Capital : Financial and Psychic Economies in Victorian Form /
During a tumultuous period when financial speculation began rapidly to outpace industrial production and consumption, Victorian financial journalists commonly explained the instability of finance by criticizing its inherent artifice drawing persistent attention to what they called ""fictit...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2014.
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| Édition: | First edition. |
| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | During a tumultuous period when financial speculation began rapidly to outpace industrial production and consumption, Victorian financial journalists commonly explained the instability of finance by criticizing its inherent artifice drawing persistent attention to what they called ""fictitious capital."" In a shift that naturalized this artifice, this critique of fictitious capital virtually disappeared by the 1860s, being replaced by notions of fickle investor psychology and mental equilibrium encapsulated in the fascinating metaphor of ""psychic economy."" In close rhetorical readings of fin. |
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| Description: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (232 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780823254996 |