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Barrows Lectures: Virtue, Fortune, and Faith : A Genealogy of Finance by Marieke de Goede (2005, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of Minnesota Press

ISBN-100816644152

ISBN-139780816644155

eBay Product ID (ePID)43551993

Product Key Features

Number of Pages272 Pages

Publication NameVirtue, Fortune, and Faith : a Genealogy of Finance

LanguageEnglish

SubjectEconomic History, Finance / General, Economics / General, Economics / Theory, Money & Monetary Policy, Investments & Securities / General

Publication Year2005

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaBusiness & Economics

AuthorMarieke De Goede

SeriesBarrows Lectures

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight13.3 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width5.9 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2004-022501

Dewey Edition22

Series Volume Number24

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal332.09

Table Of ContentContents PrefaceIntroduction: Money and Representation1. A Genealogy of Finance2. Mastering Lady Credit3. Finance, Gambling, and Speculation4. The Dow Jones Average and the Birth of the Financial Market5. Regulation and Risk in Contemporary Markets6. Repoliticizing Financial PracticesConclusion: Objectivity, Truth, and Irony in the Dot-com BubbleNotesBibliographyIndex

SynopsisLess than two centuries ago finance - today viewed as the center of economic necessity and epitome of scientific respectability - stood condemned as disreputable fraud. How this change in status came about, and what it reveals about the nature of finance, is the story told in Virtue, Fortune, and Faith. A unique cultural history of modern financial markets from the early eighteenth century to the present day, the book offers a genealogical reading of the historical insecurities, debates, and controversies that had to be purged from nascent credit practices in order to produce the image of today's coherent and - largely - rational global financial sphere. Marieke de Goede discusses moral, religious, and political transformations that have slowly naturalized the domain of finance. Using a deft integration of feminist and poststructuralist approaches, her book demonstrates that finance - not just its rules of personal engagement, but also its statistics, formulas, instruments, and institutions - is a profoundly cultural and politically contingent practice. When closely examined, the history of finance is one of colonial conquest, sexual imagination, constructions of time, and discourses of legitimate (or illegitimate) profit making. Regardless, this history has had a far-reaching impact on the development of the modern international financial institutions that act as the stewards of the world's economic resources. De Goede explores the political contestations over ideas of time and money; the gendered discourse of credit and credibility; differences among gambling, finance, and speculation; debates over the proper definition of the free market; the meaning of financial crisis; and the morality of speculation. In an era when financial practices are pronounced too specialized for broad-based public, democratic debate, Virtue, Fortune, and Faith questions assumptions about international finance's unchallenged position and effectively exposes its ambiguous scientific authority.

LC Classification NumberHG171.G637 2005