Author: Louis Langlois
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Languages : fr
Pages : 168

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Author: Louis Langlois
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Category : Credit
Languages : fr
Pages : 168

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Author: Erika Vause
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813941423
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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"The most dishonorable act that can dishonor a man." Such is Félix Grandet’s unsparing view of bankruptcy, adding that even a highway robber—who at least "risks his own life in attacking you"—is worthier of respect. Indeed, the France of Balzac’s day was an unforgiving place for borrowers. Each year, thousands of debtors found themselves arrested for commercial debts. Those who wished to escape debt imprisonment through bankruptcy sacrificed their honor—losing, among other rights and privileges, the ability to vote, to serve on a jury, or even to enter the stock market. Arguing that French Revolutionary and Napoleonic legislation created a conception of commercial identity that tied together the debtor’s social, moral, and physical person, In the Red and in the Black examines the history of debt imprisonment and bankruptcy as a means of understanding the changing logic of commercial debt. Following the practical application of these laws throughout the early nineteenth century, Erika Vause traces how financial failure and fraud became legally disentangled. The idea of personhood established in the Revolution’s aftermath unraveled over the course of the century owing to a growing penal ideology that stressed the state’s virtual monopoly over incarceration and to investors’ desire to insure their financial risks. This meticulously researched study offers a novel conceptualization of how central "the economic" was to new understandings of self, state, and the market. Telling a story deeply resonant in our own age of ambivalence about the innocence of failures by financial institutions and large-scale speculators, Vause reveals how legal personalization and depersonalization of debt was essential for unleashing the latent forces of capitalism itself.

Author: Kress Library of Business and Economics
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Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712

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Author: Kress Library of Business and Economics
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Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 412

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Author: Kress Library of Business and Economics
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Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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Author: International Federation for Housing and Planning
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 492

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Author: Costas Lapavitsas
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004272712
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 331

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The collected papers of Costas Lapavitsas are a pathway to Marxist monetary theory, a field that continues to attract strong interest. The papers range far and wide, including markets and money, finance and the enterprise, power and money, the financialisation of capitalism, finance and profit, even money as art. Despite its breadth, the collection remains highly coherent. Money and finance are pre-eminent, even dominant, features of contemporary capitalism. Lapavitsas has been one of the first political economists to notice their ascendancy and to devote his research to it. He offers a resolutely Marxist perspective on contemporary capitalism while remaining conversant with the history of political economy, sensitive to mainstream economic theory, and fully aware of the empirical reality of financialisation.