04543nam 22006615 450 991029963480332120200703160958.03-319-74397-X10.1007/978-3-319-74397-4(CKB)4100000005248871(DE-He213)978-3-319-74397-4(MiAaPQ)EBC5455207(PPN)249785323(EXLCZ)99410000000524887120180716d2018 u| 0engurnn#008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMagical Capitalism Enchantment, Spells, and Occult Practices in Contemporary Economies /edited by Brian Moeran, Timothy de Waal Malefyt1st ed. 2018.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2018.1 online resource (XVIII, 349 p.)3-319-74396-1 1. Magical Capitalism: An Introduction -- 2. Magical Contracts, Numinous Capitalism -- 3. Exorcising Leverage: Sleight of Hand and the Invisible Hand in Islamic Finance -- 4. Trickster’s Triumph: Donald Trump and the New Spirit of Capitalism -- 5. Fetish, Magic, Marketing -- 6 Magical Names: Glamour, Enchantment, and Illusion in Women’s Fashion Magazines -- 7. The Magic of Paradox: How Advertising Ideas Transform Art into Business and the Ordinary into the Extraordinary -- 8. The Business of Inspiration: A Magical Technology of Prefiguration -- 9. The Magic Trick of Creative Capital: Competition, Confidence, and Collective Enchantment Among “Starchitects” -- 10. Anthropology as Science Fiction, or How Print Capitalism Enchanted Victorian Science -- 11. The Magic of Mass Publicity: Reading Ioan Coulia -- 12 Occult Economies, Revisited -- 13. The Enchantment Effect: A Semiotics of Boundary and Profit.This volume of essays examines the ways in which magical practices are found in different aspects of contemporary capitalist societies. From contract law to science, by way of finance, business, marketing, advertising, cultural production, and the political economy in general, each chapter argues that the kind of magic studied by anthropologists in less developed societies – shamanism, sorcery, enchantment, the occult – is not only alive and well, but flourishing in the midst of so-called ‘modernity’. Modern day magicians range from fashion designers and architects to Donald Trump and George Soros. Magical rites take place in the form of political summits, the transformation of products into brands through advertising campaigns, and the biannual fashion collections shown in New York, London, Milan and Paris. Magical language, in the form of magical spells, is used by everyone, from media to marketers and all others devoted to the art of ‘spin’. While magic may appear to be opposed to systems of rational economic thought, Moeran and Malefyt highlight the ways it may in fact be an accomplice to it.Culture—Economic aspectsAnthropologyMarketingLaw and economicsEconomic policySchools of economicsCultural Economicshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/W51000Anthropologyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X12000Marketinghttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/513000Law and Economicshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/W39000Economic Policyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/W34010Heterodox Economicshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/W53000Culture—Economic aspects.Anthropology.Marketing.Law and economics.Economic policy.Schools of economics.Cultural Economics.Anthropology.Marketing.Law and Economics.Economic Policy.Heterodox Economics.306.3Moeran Brianedthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtde Waal Malefyt Timothyedthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtBOOK9910299634803321Magical Capitalism2543187UNINA