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Economy of Words
Douglas R. Holmes
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Description for Economy of Words
Paperback. Working at the intersection of anthropology, linguistics, and economics, the author shows how central bankers have been engaging in communicative experiments that predate the financial crisis and continue to be refined amid its unfolding turmoil - experiments that do not merely describe the economy, but actually create its distinctive features. Num Pages: 264 pages, 3 line drawings. BIC Classification: GTC; KCBM; KFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 414.
Markets are artifacts of language - so Douglas R. Holmes argues in this deeply researched look at central banks and the people who run them. Working at the intersection of anthropology, linguistics, and economics, he shows how central bankers have been engaging in communicative experiments that predate the financial crisis and continue to be refined amid its unfolding turmoil - experiments that do not merely describe the economy, but actually create its distinctive features. Holmes examines the New York District Branch of the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, Deutsche Bundesbank, and the Bank of England, among others, and shows ... Read more
Markets are artifacts of language - so Douglas R. Holmes argues in this deeply researched look at central banks and the people who run them. Working at the intersection of anthropology, linguistics, and economics, he shows how central bankers have been engaging in communicative experiments that predate the financial crisis and continue to be refined amid its unfolding turmoil - experiments that do not merely describe the economy, but actually create its distinctive features. Holmes examines the New York District Branch of the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, Deutsche Bundesbank, and the Bank of England, among others, and shows ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226087627
SKU
V9780226087627
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99-50
About Douglas R. Holmes
Douglas R. Holmes is professor of anthropology at Binghamton University, SUNY. He is the author of Cultural Disenchantments: Worker Peasantries in Northeast Italy and Integral Europe: Fast-Capitalism, Multiculturalism, Neofascism.
Reviews for Economy of Words
"This remarkable ethnography of monetary policy making by central bankers, and the academics with whom they engage intellectually, sets a new standard for the anthropology of finance. Up to now, we have lacked a careful, detailed account of how economic facts are performed that is rigorous and empirical enough to convince those whose intellectual propensities lie elsewhere. Economy of Words ... Read more