The Spirit of Calculation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4380263 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A Appadurai (0000-0003-0929-7157, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 3-17 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-7674 • E-ISSN: 2047-7716 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/ca.2012.300102 |
| OpenAlex | W2087360503 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 42 |
| References cited | 16 |
This article is built on a close reading of the use of the term 'calculation' by Max Weber. On the basis of this reading, I argue for a deeper understanding of Weber's views on uncertainty in the Calvinist ethos, and for a new approach to some key issues in the moral and discursive world of financial capital today, in which accounting, accountability and profit-making have become dangerously delinked from one another
Accountability · Economics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Ethos · Law and economics · Neoclassical economics · Political science · Positive economics · Profit (economics · Reading (process · Sociology · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
Kissing Frogs
Abiding Chance
Globalization, Anthropology of
«Se noi lasciamo stare la Sacca, la Sacca muore». Le politiche del tempo nell’industria lagunare di Goro (Delta del Po)
Global Capitalisms in Asia
Travelling multi‐level marketing schemes and whispers of fraud in Kenya
Existential economics
Accountabilities in the NHS
Rolling the dice
Uncertain Archives
The calculus of telescopic urbanism
Speculation Illicit and Complicit
Afterword
Betting on Performed Futures
On the Shore
What is an Educational Good? Theorising Education as Degrowth
The financial market of ideas
Broadcasting the Bieber Republic
The dynamics and potentials of big data for audience research
Renewable energy, sustainability paradox and the post-urban question
Gambling on the Monsoon in the Indian Desert
The Anatomy of a Dumpster
Présentation
Speculation
The Financialization Rush
Selling debt
Arbitrage, uncertainty and the new ethos of capitalism
Dangerous speculation
Cooking in theory
Bridges of Ambition to North Korea
Facebook and Finance
The Anthropology of Money and Finance
The ethics of a formula
Market Collaboration
Green bond market practices
Calculation in the pirate bazaars
Speculation on racing odds in India
Responsible investment
Rethinking calculation
Calculating Care
Opportunism and Diversification
Investment, value, and the making of entrepreneurship in India
Micromotives and macrobehavior
Genres of the Credit Economy
The modernity of witchcraft
An Engine, Not a Camera
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
Territory, authority, rights
Political power beyond the State
The Passions and the Interests
The Channeling Zone
Prophecy and the near future
Millennial Capitalism
The Temporalization of Financial Markets
Calculating Economic Life
Between arbitrage and speculation
Repressed futures
| Unique citing works | 42 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,23 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 40 |