Introduction: Beyond the Critique of Speculation
1. Foundationalism and Self-Referentiality
2. Constructions and Performances
3. Luhmannian Considerations
4. System, Economy, and Governance
5. Foucault beyond the Critique of Economism
6. Time, Investment, and Decision
7. Minsky beyond the Critique of Speculation
8. Practices of (Central) Banking, Imaginaries of Neutrality
9. Lineages of US Financial Governance
10. Hayek and Neoliberal Reason
11. Neoliberal Financial Governance
12. The Critique of Capital in Neoliberal Times
Martijn Konings is Associate Professor of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. His most recent book is The Emotional Logic of Capitalism (Stanford, 2015).
"Critiquing the critique of neoliberalism, Konings argues
forcefully that Minsky, not Habermas, provides the needed
foundations for a possible social theory of the present world, a
"non-essentialist economism" that engages the neoliberal project at
its very core."—Perry Mehrling, Barnard College
"This remarkable book offers a new perspective on speculation,
neo-liberalism, and contemporary finance. Erudite, beautifully
written, and original in its arguments about money, value, and
risk, it will be of great interests to economists, sociologists,
and philosophers concerned with markets and uncertainty."—Arjun
Appadurai, New York University
"A smart, erudite contribution to the emerging critical literature
on speculative value and the complex imbrication of
financialization with neoliberalism."—Wendy Brown, University of
California, Berkeley
"A must-read for anyone interested in the operation of neoliberal
reason following the recent financial crisis, Martijn Konings's
timely book develops new ways of thinking about money, finance, and
the speculative basis of contemporary capitalism."—Nicholas Gane,
University of Warwick
"In this profound and sharp-witted study, Martijn Konings leads us
through the dead ends of the modern and postmodern critique of
capitalism towards a new critical theory that looks our financial
economy in the eye."—Joseph Vogl, The Humboldt University
"Martijn Konings has given us an elegant, erudite book that points
to the centrality of speculation—and a speculative logic of time—in
modern political economy."
—Jacqueline Best, Finance and Society
"Ten years after the apex of the financial crisis, Konings...opens
a much-needed debate in critical political economy, the social
studies of finance, and related fields of scholarship, exposing a
variety of weaknesses in what now appear as ad-hoc accounts
developed in the wake of the crash."
—Leon Wansleben, Finance and Society
"Konings' consideration of the state of the field [is] both
enlightening and convincing.....His argument is specific, energetic
and organized, and, as in his trenchant The Emotional Logic of
Capitalism (2015), he demonstrates a wonderful ability to
deconstruct the tautologies and false dichotomies on which so much
of what passes for criticism are based."
—Leigh Clair La Berge, Finance and Society
"Written in the form of a short through perceptive intellectual
commentary on a series of contemporary and classical works, Capital
and Time indeed begins with a warning about the impasses of a
fundamentalist theory of value opens for the critique of
finance."—Fabian Muniesa, European Journal of Sociology
"Written in the form of a short through perceptive intellectual
commentary on a series of contemporary and classical works, Capital
and Time indeed begins with a warning about the impasses a
fundamentalist theory of value opens for the critique of
finance."—Fabian Muniesa, European Journal of Sociology
"Finally, a book that refuses to confine finance to the domain of
fictitious capital....Konings advances the critique of
neoliberalism in ways accounting for its reinvigoration in the wake
of the 2007/8 economic crisis."––Brett Nielson, Journal of
Australian Political Economy
"In this new and fascinating book, Martijin Konings pulls together
an impressive range of sociological and philosophical traditions
into an original theory of capital (but, more broadly, money) and
time under neoliberalism."––Simone Polillo, Contemporary Sociology
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