Portfolio society: on the capitalist mode of prediction
by Ascher, Ivan
fromNear futures
by Ascher, Ivan
fromNear futures
A bold extension of Marx's Capital for the twenty-first century: at once a critique of modern finance and of the societies under its spell. As financial markets expand and continue to refashion the world in their own image, the wealth of capitalist societies no longer presents i…
by Ascher, Ivan
fromNear futures
"As financial markets expand and continue to refashion the world in their own image, the wealth of capitalist societies no longer presents itself, as it did to Karl Marx in the nineteenth century, as a "monstrous collection of commodities." Instead, it appears as an equally mons…
by Ascher, Ivan
fromNear futures
by Ascher, Ivan
fromNear futures
by Ascher, Ivan
fromNear futures
"As financial markets expand and continue to refashion the world in their own image, the wealth of capitalist societies no longer presents itself, as it did to Karl Marx in the nineteenth century, as a "monstrous collection of commodities." Instead, it appears as an equally mons…