Knowing Capitalism`This is an ambitious, original, and complex treatment of key aspects of contemporary capitalism. It makes a major contribution because it profoundly destabilizes the scholarship on globalization, the so-called new economy, information technology, distinct contemporary business cultures and practices' - Saskia Sassen, author of Globalization and its Discontents `Nigel Thrift offers us the sort of cultural analysis of global capitalism that has long been needed - one that emphasizes the innovative energy of global capitalism. The book avoids stale denouncements and offers instead a view of capitalism as a form of practice' - Karin Knorr Cetina, Professor of Sociology, University of Konstanz, Germany Capitalism is well known for producing a form of existence where `everything solid melts into air'. But what happens when capitalism develops theories about itself? Are we moving into a condition in which capitalism can be said to possess a brain? These questions are pursued in this sparkling and thought-provoking book. Thrift looks at what he calls "the cultural circuit of capitalism," the mechanism for generating new theories of capitalism. The book traces the rise of this circuit back to the 1960s when a series of institutions locked together to interrogate capitalism, to the present day, when these institutions are moving out to the Pacific basin and beyond. What have these theories produced? How have they been implicated in the speculative bubbles that characterized the late twentieth century? What part have they played in developing our understanding of human relations? Building on an inter-disciplinary approach which embraces the core social sciences, Thrift outlines an exciting new theory for understanding capitalism. His book is of interest to readers in Geography, Social Theory, Antrhopology and Cultural Economics. |
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Nigel Thrift. Asian economic crisis of 1997-8 which meant that Singapore , though on the edge of events , saw its growth rate fall from 8 per cent in 1997 to 1.5 per cent in 1998. Singapore reacted predictably , with a 15 per cent wage ...
... Singapore's academic and medical communities . Web link : http://www.jhs.com.sg JHU's Peabody Institute is also collaborating with the National University of Singapore ( NUS ) to create the Singapore Conservatory of Music ( now known as ...
... Singapore's citizens . The injection of new knowledges into Singapore space is designed to create ' a new breed of Singaporean ' , one that will be more entrepreneurial , connected to the world , yet ( so the state hopes ) still ...
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements | 8 |
The Cultural Circuit of Capitalism | 11 |
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Copyright | |
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