{"product_id":"life-and-money-ute-astrid-tellmann-9780231182263","title":"Life and Money: The Genealogy of the Liberal Economy and the Displacement of Politics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLife and Money \u003c\/i\u003euncovers the contentious history of the boundary between economy and politics in liberalism. Ute Tellmann traces the shifting ontologies for defining economic necessity. She argues that our understanding of the malleability of economic relations has been displaced by colonial hierarchies of civilization and the biopolitics of the nation. Bringing economics into conversation with political theory, cultural economy, postcolonial thought, and history, Tellmann gives a radically novel interpretation of scarcity and money in terms of materiality, temporality, and affect. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book investigates the conceptual shifts regarding economic order during two moments of profound crisis in the history of liberalism. In the wake of the French Revolution, Thomas Robert Malthus's notion of population linked liberalism to a sense of economic necessity that stands counter to political promises of equality. During the Great Depression, John Maynard Keynes's writings on money proved crucial for the invention of macroeconomic theory and signaled the birth of the managed economy. Both periods, Tellmann shows, entail a displacement of the malleability of the economic. By tracing this conceptual history, \u003ci\u003eLife and Money\u003c\/i\u003e opens up liberalism, including our neoliberal present, to a new sense of economic and political possibility.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ute Astrid Tellmann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0231182260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780231182263\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/21\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2018","brand":"Ute Astrid Tellmann","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086435168511,"sku":"9780231182263","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_258b65c0-cfe5-48b8-a60c-3279b8a3a916.jpg?v=1769094656","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/life-and-money-ute-astrid-tellmann-9780231182263","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}