Life and Money: The Genealogy of the Liberal Economy and the Displacement of Politics (Columbia Studies in Political Thought / Political History)
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| Rating | : | 4.57 (830 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B071J1MKQM |
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| Number of Pages | : | 426 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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Life and Money uncovers the contentious history of the boundary between economy and politics in liberalism. A genealogical account retrieves the openness of economic thinking that emerged at these historical junctures. Avoiding the established categories of state and market, Ute Tellmann focuses instead on the shifting historical ontologies of liberal economy. Both periods, Tellmann shows, represent a double movement of opening and delimiting the political-economic imagination. Bringing economics into conversation with political theory, cultural economy, postcolonial thought, and history, Tellmann gives a radically novel interpretation of scarcity and money that focuses on materiality, temporality, and affect. During the first period, Thomas Robert Malthus’s writings on population crucially linked liberalism to a notion of economic necessity that stands counter to political promises of equality. During the second, John Maynard Keynes’s macroeconomic theory signaled the birth of the managed economy in liberalism and the dominance of the state in economic affairs. Complementing Michel Foucault’s influential accoun
Ute Tellmannisassociate professor of sociology and political theory at the University of Erfurt, Max-Weber-Kolleg.
In this conceptual tour de force, Ute Tellman undertakes a parallel but neglected project: the genealogy of the “economic” in the constitution of liberalism. A fascinating and intricately argued study that redescribes significant moments in the development of economics not just as 'discoveries' but as moments in which the very nature of the economic and the political is reconstituted. (Melinda Cooper, University of Sydney, Australia) . (Bill Maurer, University of California, Irvine)Much has been written about the genealogy of the political. Collier, The New School)A sharp and important book that provides a rich account of the constitution of 'the economic' as a foundational domain. It is such a tour de force in its treatment of Keynes that it belongs alongside Moggridge or Skidelsky. This is a vital and urgently neede