Description: Spectacular Speculation : Thrills, the Economy, and Popular Discourse, Paperback by Staheli, Urs; Savoth, Eric (TRN), ISBN 0804771324, ISBN-13 9780804771320, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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, th reveals the underside of putting it into words. Speculation's success depended upon non-economic language and morally questionable thrills: a proximity to the wasteful practice of gambling or other "degenerate" behaviors, the experience of financial markets as seductive, or out of control. American discourses of speculation take center stage, and th covers an unusual range of material, including stock exchange guids, ticker tape, moral treatises, plays, advertisements, and newspapers.
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Book Title: Spectacular Speculation : Thrills, the Economy, and Popular Disco
Number of Pages: 312 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Spectacular Speculation : Thrills, the Economy, and Popular Discourse
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Item Height: 0.9 in
Subject: Economic History, Sociology / General, Finance / General, Investments & Securities / General
Publication Year: 2013
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 14.4 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Social Science, Business & Economics
Author: Urs Stäheli
Item Width: 7.8 in
Format: Trade Paperback
