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Imagined Economies - Real Fictions : New Perspectives on Economic Thinking in Great Britain.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fischer, Jessica.
Other Authors: Stedman, Gesa.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bielefeld : transcript, 2020.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Edition Kulturwissenschaft
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • References
  • Why Imagined Economies?
  • Making up markets
  • Imagining Otherwise
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • The Rise and Decline of Doux Commerce: Change of Experience and Change of Perception
  • The rise of commerce and doux commerce: British peculiarities
  • Early Start and Slow Pace of the Market Economy
  • Power Relations and Exchange Relations
  • Empathy as a Market Strategy
  • The decline of doux commerce
  • Commerce and doux commerce in the long-term perspective
  • References
  • The Emotional Economies of Colonial Capitalism and Its Legacies
  • Introduction
  • Legacies in 21st-Century Non-Fiction: Either Economy or Race
  • Mid-19th-Century Colonial Fiction: Economy, Race, Emotions
  • Managing Anger in the Imagined Plantation Economy of Lutchmee and Dilloo
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Imagining Money
  • Introduction
  • Money in Macroeconomics
  • Real Fictions
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Beneath and Beyond the City: The Multiple Faces of British Finance
  • Introduction
  • The 'City' in Britain: A brief historical retrospect
  • Beyond the City: The British state
  • Beneath the City: The diversity of British finance
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • A Nation of Shopkeepers? The Idealised High Street in Brexit Britain
  • Imagining the economy
  • Nostalgia for the high street
  • The idealised high street: three instances
  • Economic imaginaries in Brexit Britain
  • A Nice Row of Shops: The High Street in Little England
  • 'Our Town': The High Street in a Democratised Economy
  • Beyond the high street
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • The New Democratic Economy: An Imaginary and Real Alternative
  • Labour, Conservatives and Social Ownership
  • Community Wealth Building: from an extractive to a circulatory economy
  • Institutional, Ownership and System Change: a road to socialism?.
  • Plurality of Institutions: complexity and reversibility
  • Social Change and Scaling Up
  • Localism and its Limits? Community, competition and inequality
  • National and Public Ownership
  • The Imaginary and Real Alternative
  • References
  • Imaginary Economies: Narratives for the 21st Century
  • References
  • Authors.

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