Global magic : technologies of appropriation from ancient Rome to Wall Street
By: Hornborg, Alf
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BookSeries: Publisher: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.Description: x, 201 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9781137567864Subject(s): Economic anthropology | Technology -- Anthropological aspects | Technology and civilizationDDC classification: 306.3 Online resources: Location Map | Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| REGULAR | University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection | 306.3 HO GL (Browse shelf) | Available | T0054637 |
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| 306.3 CO DE Co-designing economies in transition : | 306.3 DI EC Economics and diversity / | 306.3 DI GI Digitalizing consumption : | 306.3 HO GL Global magic : | 306.3 JA CO Consumption matters : | 306.3 MC DE Deep economy : | 306.3 MC EV Everything now / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. The Ecology of Things: Artifacts as Embodied Relations 2. Land, Energy, and Value in the Technocene 3. The Magic of Money 4. Empires, World-Systems, and Expanding Markets 5. Money as Fictive Energy: Unraveling the Relation between Economics and Physics 6. Agency, Ontology, and Global Magic 7. The Political Ecology of Technological Utopianism 8. Redesigning Money to Curb Globalization and Increase Resilience 9. Conclusions: Money, Technology, and Magic
Modern thought on economics and technology is no less magical than the world views of non-modern peoples. This book reveals how our ideas about growth and progress ignore how money and machines throughout history have been used to exploit less affluent parts of world society.