Bibliograph

Beyond liquidity, the metaphor of money in financial crisis, edited by Brad Pasanek and Simone Polillo

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Beyond liquidity, the metaphor of money in financial crisis, edited by Brad Pasanek and Simone Polillo

Language

eng

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Beyond liquidity

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

798061902

Responsibility statement

edited by Brad Pasanek and Simone Polillo

Sub title

the metaphor of money in financial crisis

Summary

Liquidity, or rather lack of it, lies at the heart of the ongoing global financial crisis. In this collection of essays, the metaphor of money as liquidity, and the model of crisis it entails, is deliberated by a range of scholars from economics, history, anthropology, literature, and sociology. This volume offers a rhetorical explanation of the social, cultural, and historical contexts in which metaphors of money are produced, circulate, and fail. These essays, first presented at After the Crash, Beyond Liquidity, a conference on money and metaphors held at the University of Virginia, USA, in October of 2009, were drafted in the wake of global uncertainty, TARP bailouts, the Great Recession, programs of stimulus and austerity, and recurrent threats of sovereign default in the EU. They question the language of liquidity and flows that is characteristic of everyday business, exposing what metaphors of money hide and explaining why the idea of liquidity has proved so durable. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Cultural Economy

Table Of Contents

Introduction: After the crash, beyond liquidity / Brad Pasanek and Simone Polillo -- Foreword: Commercial material flows as generators of identity symbols / Arthur Stinchcombe -- Money as electricity / Anne Mayhew -- Parallel journeys: Adam Smith and Milton Friedman on the regulation of banking / Hugh Rockoff -- Insurance, risk and the limits of sentimental representation / John O'Brien -- Desire and disease in the speculative economy: a critique of the language of crisis / Nicky Marsh -- The liquid life: money and the circulation of success after Franklin / Matthew Garrett -- 'The root of all good': Ayn Rand's meaning of money / Jennifer Burns -- Afterword: Mobile money, money magic, purse limits and pins: tracing monetary pragmatics / Bill Maurer

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