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By Peter-Paul Bänziger,Mischa Suter

Global concerns reminiscent of weather swap and the aftermath of the 2008 monetary situation have spurred curiosity in wondering the historical past of the fashionable financial system that is going past disciplinary fiscal historical past. This publication contributes to the cultural background of capitalism and its diverse regimes of productiveness through pursuing the point of view of physique heritage and via delivering a world scope. all through modernity, the physique served as a primary, albeit basically altering, linchpin for either the association of monetary practices and for highbrow reflections at the financial system. specifically, it was once the pivotal interface to render notions of financial productiveness intelligible. The publication explores this vital thesis in various case experiences, drawing on resource fabric from West Africa, Europe, Mexico, and the USA. Framed through a theoretically knowledgeable creation, which additionally presents a conceptual historical past of notions of productiveness, and by means of an afterword that brings the ways explored during this quantity into discussion with scholarship encouraged by way of Marx and Foucault, the person chapters take on the idea that of productiveness from a wide range of angles, every one illuminating the guarantees and difficulties of a cultural tackle the heritage of financial productivity.

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