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Martijn Konings
Other affiliations: University of Amsterdam, Philippine Institute for Development Studies
Bio: Martijn Konings is an academic researcher from University of Sydney. The author has contributed to research in topics: Capitalism & Politics. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 52 publications receiving 1151 citations. Previous affiliations of Martijn Konings include University of Amsterdam & Philippine Institute for Development Studies.
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01 Jan 2009
TL;DR: Panitch and Konings as discussed by the authors discuss the relationship between finance and American power in the context of international finance, and the role of financial discipline in the development of the United States economy.
Abstract: Preface Introduction L.Panitch & M.Konings PART I: CONTOURS AND SOURCES OF IMPERIAL FINANCE Finance and American Empire L.Panitch & S.Gindin American Finance and Empire in Historical Perspective M.Konings PART II: CONSTRUCTING THE PILLARS OF IMPERIAL FINANCE US Structural Power and the Internationalization of the US Treasury D.Sarai Neo-Liberalism and the Federal Reserve E.Newstadt US Power and the International Bond Market: Financial Flows and the Construction of Risk Value S.Aquanno Towards the Americanization of European Finance? The Case of Finance-Led Accumulation in Germany T.Sablowski Accounting for Financial Capital. American Hegemony and the Conflict over International Accounting Standards T.Sablowski From Bretton Woods to Neoliberal Reforms: The International Financial Institutions and American Power R.Felder The Role of Financial Discipline in Imperial Strategy C.Rude Conclusion M.Konings & L.Panitch
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TL;DR: The authors compare the trajectories of financialization and their political repercussions in the United States, Germany, and the Netherlands and find that some localities were hit harder than others by the financial crisis.
Abstract: The securitization crisis that started in mid-2007 has demonstrated that we are indeed living in a “global financial village” and are all subject to the vagaries of financialization. Nevertheless, the fallout from the credit crisis has not been homogeneous across space. That some localities were hit harder than others suggests that there are distinct geographies of financialization. Combining insights from the “varieties of capitalism” literature with those from the literature on “financialization studies,” the article offers a first take on what may explain these different geographies on the basis of an informal comparison of the trajectories of financialization and their political repercussions in the United States, Germany, and the Netherlands. The article ends with some reflections on how economic geography could be enriched by combining comparative studies on institutionalism and financialization, while its distinct research focus—detailed spatial analysis endowed with a well-developed sensit...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the dynamic of combined wage and residential property prices in major cities around the world and found that the average wage worker in a major city can earn more income in a year than the average residential property price.
Abstract: What becomes of class when residential property prices in major cities around the world accrue more income in a year than the average wage worker? This paper investigates the dynamic of combined wa...
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27 May 2015
TL;DR: In this article, Konings argues that the production of new sources of faith and enchantment is crucial to the dynamics of the capitalist economy, and he draws on pragmatist thought to rework and revitalize the Marxist critique of capitalism.
Abstract: The capitalist market, progressives bemoan, is a cold monster: it disrupts social bonds, erodes emotional attachments, and imposes an abstract utilitarian rationality. But what if such hallowed critiques are completely misleading? This book argues that the production of new sources of faith and enchantment is crucial to the dynamics of the capitalist economy. Distinctively secular patterns of attraction and attachment give modern institutions a binding force that was not available to more traditional forms of rule. Elaborating his alternative approach through an engagement with the semiotics of money and the genealogy of economy, Martijn Konings uncovers capitalism's emotional and theological content in order to understand the paradoxical sources of cohesion and legitimacy that it commands. In developing this perspective, he draws on pragmatist thought to rework and revitalize the Marxist critique of capitalism.
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08 Apr 2010
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TL;DR: The second edition of the Second Edition as mentioned in this paper is a collection of essays about philosophy and social sciences with a focus on the nature of meaningful behaviour and its relationship to the social sciences.
Abstract: Preface to the Second Edition Part 1: Philosophical Bearings 1. Aims and Strategy 2. The Underlabourer Conception of Philosophy 3. Philosophy and Science 4. The Philosopher's Concern with Language 5. Conceptual and Empirical Enquiries 6. The Pivotal Role of Epistemology in Philosophy 7. Epistemology and the Understanding of Society 8. Rules: Wittgenstein's Analysis 9. Some Misunderstandings of Wittgenstein Part 2: The Nature of Meaningful Behaviour 1. Philosophy and Sociology 2. Meaningful Behaviour 3. Activities and Precepts 4. Rules and Habits 5. Reflectiveness Part 3: The Social Studies as Science 1. J.S. Mill's 'Logic of the Moral Sciences' 2. Differences in Degree and Differences in Kind 3. Motives and Causes 4. Motives, Dispositions and Reasons 5. The Investigation of Regularities 6. Understanding Social Institutions 7. Prediction in the Social Studies Part 4: The Mind and Society 1. Pareto: Logical and Non-Logical Conduct 2. Pareto: Residues and Derivations 3. Max Weber: Verstehen and Causal Explanation 4. Max Weber: Meaningful Action and Social Action Part 5: Concepts and Actions 1. The Internality of Social Relations 2. Discursive and Non-Discursive 'Ideas' 3. The Social Sciences and History 4. Concluding Remark
1,329 citations
01 Jan 2002
TL;DR: In this article, the Schumpeterian Competition State and the Workfare State are discussed, with a focus on the role of social reproduction and the workfare state in the two types of states.
Abstract: List of Boxes. List of Tables and Figure. Preface. Abbreviations. Introduction. 1. Capitalism and the Capitalist Type of State. 2. The Keynesian Welfare National State. 3. The Schumpeterian Competition State. 4. Social Reproduction and the Workfare State. 5. The Political Economy of State Rescaling. 6. From Mixed Economy to Metagovernance. 7. Towards Schumpeterian Workfare Postnational Regimes?. Notes. References. Index.
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TL;DR: Michel Foucault takes the reader on a serendipitous journey in tracing the history of madness from the 16th to the 18th centuries using original documents, which recreates the mood, the place, and the proper perspective in thehistory of madness.
Abstract: Michel Foucault takes the reader on a serendipitous journey in tracing the history of madness from the 16th to the 18th centuries. Utilizing original documents, the author recreates the mood, the place, and the proper perspective in the history of madness. Madness or folly is viewed as part of the human condition and to be examined and illuminated through one of its many facets. At the end of the Middle Ages madness was seen either as a tragic or comic phenomenon. The Renaissance, with Erasmus' Praise of Folly , demonstrated how imagination and its derivatives were to thinkers of that day. The French Revolution introduced the so-called medical approach. Madness is a ubiquitous phenomenon that has common roots not only in medicine but in poetry and tragedy. Shakespeare brilliantly describes psychological phenomena with even greater clarity than Tuke or Wills. The author weaves a fascinating history showing the changing pattern of
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