romantics, rationalists, and the making of a world scale /
Colin Danby.
Abingdon, Oxon :
Routledge,
2017.
1 online resource
Culture, economy and the social
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface and acknowledgments -- Introduction: Sarkozy versus GDP -- The voice of economy -- Love or money -- A Jewish economy in Palestine -- Body of the nation -- Shape of the world -- Discovering economies in British Africa -- The IMF makes the world -- Romantic responses -- Romantic political economy -- Shock of the modern -- Jameson's postmodern -- Spirit of finance -- Opening up -- Time and finance -- Numbered things.
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'The Known Economy' shows that international economic institutions, chiefly the International Monetary Fund, have been enormously successful cultural innovators, creating a persuasive system of meanings including the very category of a 'world economy'.