Imagined Economies - Real Fictions

• Auteur principal: Fischer, Jessica (auth)
• Autres auteurs: Stedman, Gesa (auth)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: transcript Verlag 2020
• Collection: Edition Kulturwissenschaft
• Sujets: Financial Crisis; Europe; British Studies; Neoliberalism; Great Britain; Reality; Economy; Cultural Studies; Real Fiction; Brexit; Economic Theory; Cultural Theory; Homo Economicus; Power; Culture
• Accès en ligne: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The way we conceptualise the economy and ourselves as homo economicus has profound consequences for our lives. The contributions to this anthology take debates about the financial crisis, about recent austerity measures or about the Brexit referendum a step further. A common denominator of these dyn...