...This essay examines how John Thelwall, the notorious political radical inspired by the French Revolution, deployed scientific vitalism in order to promote economic and political change in late eighteenth-century Britain. In adapting Agamben’s notion of “economic theology” to revolutionary contexts...

...This book addresses the subjects of literacy. It explores how literacy workers are subjected to the relations between new forms of labor and the concept of human capital as a dominant economic structure in the United States. It is about how literacies become forms of value producing labor...

... asserts that advertising is distinct from economics, deeper than the very facts of economic life; its focus is on things and their capacity to morally transform human life. Finally, it discusses the role that things play in the establishment of shared political and moral space. things morality...

.... These strategies go hand in hand with soon-to-be dominant re-imaginations of free market economics by economists such as Milton Friedman and Gary Becker. The chapter analyzes the work on the economics of discrimination in relation to Samuel Delany’s use of sword and sorcery to reflect on how race gets used...

... Christian traditions consumerism liberty and fundamentalism liberty through consumerism market fundamentalism No Rising Tide Theology Economics and the Future Reiger Reiger Joerg No Rising Tide Theology Economics and the Future rising tide theology corporate cruel optimism in politics gods...

... the question of the relation between economics and politics today, and especially between the market and the state. That relation today is a relation of limits. In other words, should the market limit the state or the state limit the market? The chapter explores this question of market and state limitation...

... underpinning that must be resisted. Smith Adam politics neoliberalism Arendt Hannah financial bubbles Zola Emile Berkowitz Roger Short Term Thinking Hannah Arendt Alan Greenspan Adam Smith Free Market Economics President Obama Max Weber Emile Zola Adam Smith I would like to start by considering...

...The concluding chapter of the volume ties together many of the economic themes from the conference, including the parallels between Minsky and Arendt. The chapter builds on the selective reading of Adam Smith and highlights that economics may have evolved into an amoral discipline but was founded...

... in its early form, the sentimental touch critiques the hand that is misused to serve economic interests. Stowe's sentimentalism is rooted in the moral sense, the shared feelings of right and wrong that, according to the moral sense philosophers, hold society together. body and capitalism feeling...

...This essay discusses the relationship between the Republicans’ antebellum economic agenda and the events of the Civil War. The essay appears to begin aligned with the big argument that the Republicans were intent on changing the national economy, and the war provided a useful opportunity to do so...

.... The emphasis on individual autonomy in Rawls’s preferred economic model provides one indication of the impact of neoliberal ideas on his thought. The influence of neoliberal conceptions of the nature and function of government was already apparent in Theory of Justice, where he characterized...

...Do the principles and frameworks provided by Catholic Social Teaching (CST) have any effect today on the processes of democratic practices and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Catholic-owned businesses? The results of Yudianti’s economic analysis indicate that, in fact, yes, the democratic...

..., or venture, is the organizing principle of in-Christ community. Given the complexly unstable legal and financial context of “citizenship” under the Roman empire in the first century CE and the prominence of what I call theo-economics in Philippians, politeuma for Paul is more about divine...

... to more complex entanglements among the economic, political, and theological realms. Drawing on Devin Singh’s work on the influence of money on theology and how it shapes the economic order, this chapter argues that the parable has historically functioned to provide divine sanction for money lending...

... Pierre Joseph International Monetary Fund mortgages Bank of England Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation FDIC Shiller Robert National Bureau of Economic Research Modigliani Franco capitalism Federal Reserve Goldman Sachs Wall Street finance capitalism Putin Vladimir Augustine Buff et...

...In the context of the book’s emphasis on “Systems of Life” in the social sciences in the eighteenth century, this chapter seeks to interrogate the conception of growth, an evidently biological analogy, in the work of two major founders of the discipline of economics, François Quesnay and Adam Smith...

...This chapter examines a diverse set of literatures from behavioral economics and global health to see what changes have taken place in foundational agreements about policy regarding the poor. Since disease surveillance has appeared as a major concern in global health, the impetus toward generation...

... Packard Randall South Africa Garcia Angela mazar asceticism biopolitics death HIV/AIDS risk welfare economics This chapter is offered in lieu of a conclusion because many of the questions, concerns, and topics raised are meant to invite further thought rather than resolutions. As the introduction...

...The chapter by Adorno discusses the implications of the parallel formation of economics and biology in the eighteenth century that account for the continuous transference of medical metaphors to the economy and of economical considerations into medical well-being that is characteristic...