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Roger Berkowitz - The Intellectual Origins of the Global Financial Crisis - 9780823249619 - V9780823249619
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The Intellectual Origins of the Global Financial Crisis

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Description for The Intellectual Origins of the Global Financial Crisis Paperback. Responses to the financial crash of 2008 by a unique combination of scholars (primarily economists and political philosophers) and actual players in the world of finance-including from Wall Street, from watchdog nonprofit organizations seeking to monitor Wall Street, and from the U.S. Treasury itself. Editor(s): Berkowitz, Roger. Num Pages: 232 pages, 20 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: KCA; KCX; KFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 165 x 15. Weight in Grams: 326.

Commentary on the financial crisis has offered technical analysis, political finger pointing, and myriad economic and political solutions. But rarely do these investigations reach beyond the economic and political causes of the crisis to explore their underlying intellectual grounds. The essays in this volume delve deeper into the cultural and intellectual foundations, philosophical ideas, political traditions, and economic movements that underlie the greatest financial crisis in nearly a century. Moving beyond traditional economic and political science
approaches, these essays engage thinkers from Hannah Arendt to Max Weber and Adam Smith to Michel Foucault.
With Arendt as a catalyst, the authors probe the philosophical as well as the cultural origins of the great recession. Orienting the volume is Arendt’s argument that past financial crises and also totalitarianism are rooted, at least in part, in the tendency for capital to expand its reach globally without regard to political and moral borders or limits. That politics is made subservient to economics names a cultural transformation that, in the spirit of Arendt, guides these essays in making sense of our present world.
Including articles, interviews, and commentary from leading scholars and business executives, this volume offers views that are as diverse as they are timely. By reaching beyond “how” the crisis happened to “why” the crisis happened, the authors re-imagine the recent financial crisis and thus provide fresh thinking about how to respond.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823249619
SKU
V9780823249619
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About Roger Berkowitz
Roger Berkowitz is the Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities and Associate Professor of Politics, Human Rights, and Philosophy at Bard College.

Reviews for The Intellectual Origins of the Global Financial Crisis
"An important contribution to the discussions about the origins and character of the financial crisis."
-Jacob Dahl Rendtorff Roskilde University "A novel, intriguing and fruitful angle from which to approach the recent financial crisis."
-Gary Mongiovi St. John's University

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