Capitalism and the dark forces of time and ignorance : economic and political expectations / / David Harrison

• Autore: Harrison D. M (David M.), <1955->
• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2021]; ©2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (152 pages)
• Disciplina: 330.122
• Soggetto topico: Capitalism
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Living in Truth -- Professor Hayek's Knowledge Machine -- Not a Time Machine -- Two Views of the Future -- Two Views of the Past -- The End of History -- Minsky's Moment -- References -- 2 After the Fall -- Dark Forces -- The UK Turns Inward -- As Does the United States -- Europe Has No Seatbelts -- The Lure of the Far-Right -- This Time Is Not Different -- Scapegoats Must Be Found -- References -- 3 The Medium Is (Still) the Message -- Inside Knowledge -- Artists of the Floating World -- No Mistakes and No Learning -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being -- References -- 4 What Do You Expect? -- The Role of Expectations -- Long-Term Expectations -- The Open Society Under Pressure -- A Chequered History -- Anchoring the Future -- Back to the Drawing Board -- Motions of the Planets -- References -- 5 Possibilities, Probabilities, and Propensities -- "We Simply Do Not Know" -- An Efficient Pseudo-Science -- Two General Theories -- The Cost of Living -- References -- 6 The Best and the Brightest -- Hedging Your Bets -- Passive Resistance -- Losers in the Gamble of Uncertainty -- Going Forwards, Looking Backwards -- Market Power and Market Bubbles -- References -- 7 Bretton Woods Revisited -- Crisis Begets Crisis -- The Original Idea -- Steps to Safety -- A Few Pieces of Paper -- References -- 8 Selling England by the Pound -- Decline and Fall -- Going Round in Circles -- Catching Up -- The Path Not Taken -- Back to the Sixteenth Century -- References -- 9 Tomorrow Without Fear -- The Arsenal of Democracy -- A Better Tomorrow, Yesterday -- Monnet and Keynes -- Two Unions -- Stabilising an Unstable World -- References -- 10 Out of Darkness -- The Bankruptcy of the Reasonable Man -- Crises Without Politics -- The Shock of the New -- Why Then Do We Have Booms and Busts? -- Speculation Not so Cheap -- The Dimension of Time. ; The Dark Forces of Time and Ignorance -- References -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Capitalism and the dark forces of time and ignorance
• ISBN: 3-030-78394-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910495192703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Palgrave pivot.