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

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.

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Main Author: Allison Lakomski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cultural Studies Association 2017-05-01
Series:Lateral
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.25158/L6.1.24
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title Review of "Portfolio Society: On the Capitalist Mode of Prediction" by Ivan Ascher (MIT Press)
title_short Review of "Portfolio Society: On the Capitalist Mode of Prediction" by Ivan Ascher (MIT Press)
title_full Review of "Portfolio Society: On the Capitalist Mode of Prediction" by Ivan Ascher (MIT Press)
title_fullStr Review of "Portfolio Society: On the Capitalist Mode of Prediction" by Ivan Ascher (MIT Press)
title_full_unstemmed Review of "Portfolio Society: On the Capitalist Mode of Prediction" by Ivan Ascher (MIT Press)
title_sort review of "portfolio society: on the capitalist mode of prediction" by ivan ascher (mit press)
publisher Cultural Studies Association
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publishDate 2017-05-01
description 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.
topic capital
credit
demographics
karl marx
money
risk
url https://doi.org/10.25158/L6.1.24
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