Imagined Economies - Real Fictions : : New Perspectives on Economic Thinking in Great Britain.

• Superior document: Edition Kulturwissenschaft ; v.210
• Author: Fischer, Jessica.
• TeilnehmendeR: Stedman, Gesa.
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript,, 2020.; Ã2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Edition Kulturwissenschaft
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (180 pages)

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• References
• Why Imagined Economies?
• Making up markets
• Imagining Otherwise
• Acknowledgements
• References
• The Rise and Decline of Doux Commerce: Change of Experience and Change of Perception
• The rise of commerce and doux commerce: British peculiarities
• Early Start and Slow Pace of the Market Economy
• Power Relations and Exchange Relations
• Empathy as a Market Strategy
• The decline of doux commerce
• Commerce and doux commerce in the long-term perspective
• References
• The Emotional Economies of Colonial Capitalism and Its Legacies
• Introduction
• Legacies in 21st-Century Non-Fiction: Either Economy or Race
• Mid-19th-Century Colonial Fiction: Economy, Race, Emotions
• Managing Anger in the Imagined Plantation Economy of Lutchmee and Dilloo
• Conclusion
• References
• Imagining Money
• Introduction
• Money in Macroeconomics
• Real Fictions
• Conclusion
• References
• Beneath and Beyond the City: The Multiple Faces of British Finance
• Introduction
• The 'City' in Britain: A brief historical retrospect
• Beyond the City: The British state
• Beneath the City: The diversity of British finance
• Conclusion
• References
• A Nation of Shopkeepers? The Idealised High Street in Brexit Britain
• Imagining the economy
• Nostalgia for the high street
• The idealised high street: three instances
• Economic imaginaries in Brexit Britain
• A Nice Row of Shops: The High Street in Little England
• 'Our Town': The High Street in a Democratised Economy
• Beyond the high street
• Conclusion
• References
• The New Democratic Economy: An Imaginary and Real Alternative
• Labour, Conservatives and Social Ownership
• Community Wealth Building: from an extractive to a circulatory economy
• Institutional, Ownership and System Change: a road to socialism?.
• Plurality of Institutions: complexity and reversibility
• Social Change and Scaling Up
• Localism and its Limits? Community, competition and inequality
• National and Public Ownership
• The Imaginary and Real Alternative
• References
• Imaginary Economies: Narratives for the 21st Century
• References
• Authors.