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Review of Portfolio Society: On the Capitalist Mode of Prediction by Ivan Ascher (MIT Press)

Author(s) -

Allison Lakomski

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

lateral

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 2469-4053

DOI - 10.25158/l6.1.24

Subject(s) - portfolio , debt , capitalism , value (mathematics) , economic history , economics , mode (computer interface) , financial system , neoclassical economics , classical economics , financial economics , political science , finance , law , mathematics , computer science , statistics , politics , operating system

As Ivan Ascher shows in his book “Portfolio Society,” since the mid-twentieth century capitalism’s developed world has found itself increasingly dependent on a system of money in itself as determinant of value—a system of credit and debt, of perceived risks and predictions. Portfolio Society: On the Capitalist Mode of Prediction. By Ivan Ascher. New York: MIT Press, 2016, 192 pp. (hardcover) ISBN 9781935408741. US List:

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