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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822382803321

Autore

Stäheli Urs <1966->

Titolo

Spectacular speculation : thrills, the economy, and popular discourse / / Urs Stäheli ; translated by Eric Savoth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, 2013

ISBN

0-8047-8825-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SavothEric

Disciplina

332.64/5

Soggetti

Speculation - United States - History

Speculation - History

Finance - Social aspects - United States - History

Finance - Social aspects - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translation of: Spektakuläre Spekulation : das Populäre der Ökonomie.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Gambling and speculation : entertaining contingency? -- The normalization of "wild contingency" : stabilizing the distinction between gambling and speculation -- Charles Mackay : the spectacle of equality -- Speculative vistas : crowds and speculation in the USA during the nineteenth century -- Alone against the crowd : the communicative techniques of the contrarians -- The eroticism of the market and the gender of speculation -- The rhythm of the market.

Sommario/riassunto

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 popular knowledge and charts the discursive struggles of making speculation a legitimate economic practice. Noting that the vocabulary available to discuss the concept was not properly economic, the book reveals the underside of putting it into words. Speculation's success depended upon no