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  • History in Financial Times

  • Currencies: New Thinking for Financial Times
  • By: Amin Samman
  • Narrated by: Marcus Freeman
  • Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins

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History in Financial Times

By: Amin Samman
Narrated by: Marcus Freeman
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Publisher's summary

Critical theorists of economy tend to understand the history of market society as a succession of distinct stages. This vision of history rests on a chronological conception of time, whereby each present slips into the past so that a future might take its place. This book argues that the linear mode of thinking misses something crucial about the dynamics of contemporary capitalism. Rather than each present leaving a set past behind it, the past continually circulates through and shapes the present, such that historical change emerges through a shifting panorama of historical associations, names, and dates. The result is a strange feedback loop between now and then, real and imaginary. Demonstrating how this idea can give us a better purchase on financial capitalism in the post-crisis era, History in Financial Times traces the diverse modes of history production at work in the spheres of financial journalism, policymaking, and popular culture. Paying particular attention to narrative and to notions of crisis, recurrence, and revelation, Amin Samman gives us a novel take on the relation between historical thinking and critique.

The book is published by Stanford University Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.

©2019 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (P)2022 Redwood Audiobooks
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Critic reviews

"A deeply original and impressive contribution to critical studies of finance, the history of capitalism, and historical theory." (The American Historical Review)

"Brilliantly exposes the intricate workings of the historical imagination in our present financialized times...a must-read." (Jacqueline Best, University of Ottawa)

"Exciting, fresh, and strange in the most provocative and productive way." (Ethan Kleinberg, Wesleyan University)

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