Beschreibung:
Rather than offering a strictly economic approach to the causes of the financial collapse, this book argues that the crisis was as much cultural as economic, and that any way forward must understand the complex relationship between media, culture and the economy. It was originally published as a special issue of Cultural Studies.
1. The Economic Crisis and After: Recovery, Reconstruction and The Promise of Cultural Studies Mark Hayward 2. Modernity & Commensuration: A Reading of the contemporary (economic) crisis Lawrence Grossberg 3. The Lost Histories of American Economic Rights Jayson Harsin 4. Spirits in the Night: Reasonableness and the Etho-Politics of Securities Law Darrin Hicks and Mathew Dunn 5. After Neo-liberalism? Markets, states and the reinvention of public welfare John Clarke 6. Celebrity and Schadenfreude: the cultural economy of fame in freefall Jo Littler and Steven Cross 7. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly-Economies of Parable Randy Martin 8. Unfinished Business: labour, management, and the creative industries Stefano Harney 9. Afterword: After Austerity? Mark Hayward