Ute Tellmann

Bio: Ute Tellmann is an academic researcher from University of Erfurt. The author has contributed to research in topics: Event (philosophy). The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 2 publications receiving 2 citations.

Ökonomie als Kultur

Abstract: Dieser Aufsatz analysiert zwei historische Momente der kultursoziologischen Betrachtung von Okonomie: die von den Klassikern der Soziologie entfaltete Perspektive von Okonomie als Kultur auf der einen Seite und die gegenwartigen Debatten, die unter dem Stichwort der Cultural Economy zusammengefasst werden, auf der anderen Seite. In beiden Fallen wird eine fur die Moderne konstitutive Gegenuberstellung von Kultur und Okonomie unterminiert. In dieser Gegenuberstellung wird Okonomie oftmals mit Materialitat, Naturlichkeit und Gesetzmasigkeit assoziiert, wahrend Kultur als „bloses“ Epiphanomen behandelt wird. Der Aufsatz zeigt auf, dass die erfolgreiche Aushohlung der Binaritat von Kultur und Okonomie in den gegenwartigen Debatten einen begrifflichen und wissensgeschichtlichen Reflexionshorizont braucht, damit die innovative und erhellende Perspektive der Kultursoziologie auf Okonomie weiter entwickelt werden kann.

The matter of forms and the making of time: thinking about What is an event? by Robin Wagner-Pacifici

Abstract: A book with the general title What is an event? seems to travel firmly in the well-worn paths of a debate in social theory that is associated with the names of Gilles Deleuze, Alain Badiou, Brian M...

An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets:

Abstract: economic effects of FDI flows to countries in the global South. Though the book alludes to Southern unionists and other laymen criticizing Northern FDI for crowding out domestic investment and fostering unemployment and inequality, no reference whatsoever is made to the empirical work of scholars such as Jeffrey Kentor, William Dixon, and Terry Boswell, whose articles in the American Journal of Sociology and the American Sociological Review corroborate these criticisms. Southern fears of growth-reducing FDI effects are reduced in Guillén’s study to a simple image problem, to be solved by more efficient public relations efforts on the part of the multinationals. In fact, Guillén claims, “Spanish multinationals .|.|. are moving in the right direction, namely .|.|. beefing up their public-relations image throughout the region as long-term investors and philanthropists committed to the host country’s development” (p. 173).

Introduction [Codes of Finance: Engineering Derivatives in a Global Bank]

Abstract: The financial industry’s invention of complex products such as credit default swaps and other derivatives has been widely blamed for triggering the global financial crisis of 2008. In Codes of Finance, Vincent Antonin Lepinay, a former employee of one of the world’s leading investment banks, takes readers behind the scenes of the equity derivatives business at the bank before the crisis, providing a detailed firsthand account of the creation, marketing, selling, accounting, and management of these financial instruments—and of how they ultimately created havoc inside and outside the bank.