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On the constitutive effects of contingent associations

Author(s) -

Matthias Thiemann

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

finance and society

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 2059-5999

DOI - 10.2218/finsoc.v4i2.2873

Subject(s) - neoliberalism (international relations) , agency (philosophy) , capitalism , corporate governance , capital (architecture) , state (computer science) , neoclassical economics , sociology , economic system , economics , political science , political economy , positive economics , social science , finance , law , politics , archaeology , algorithm , computer science , history

Proposing a non-moralistic critique of the changes to neoliberal capitalism post-crisis, Konings provides a refreshing take on the dynamics of financial governance, emphasizing the way linkages between state and finance are structured by a speculative logic internal to neoliberalism. In this essay, I raise a number of questions about this characterization of neoliberalism, focusing on issues of agency and durability. First, does the turn to systems theory allow for a satisfactory account of the role that agency has played in the historical expansion of neoliberalism? And second, is it possible to envisage an end to neoliberalism when neoliberalism is so closely identified with capital dynamics in general?

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