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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Despite the reversal of America's fortune from the triumphalism of
the Roaring Nineties to the gloom of the lost decade and the Great
Depression, theoretical conceptions of US capitalism have remained
surprisingly unchanged. This book departs from the American
political economy literature to identify three common myths that
have shaped our conceptualization of US capitalism: its reduction
to a state-market dyad dis-embedded from societal factors; the
illusion of a weak state and the synchronic conception of the US
variety of capitalism. To remedy these pitfalls, the authors
propose a civilizational approach to American political economy at
the crossroads between cultural studies, history, sociology and
political science. Drawing together contributions from a rich
variety of fields (from geography to cultural studies, political
science and sociology) this work sheds a new light on America's
"cultural political economy" combining theoretical reflection with
empirical data and offering innovative perspectives on the crisis
and renewal of American capitalism. This book will be of interest
to students and scholars interested in the dynamics of capitalism
and its societal ramifications beyond economics. The
multidisciplinary nature of this book also makes it a useful
learning tool for students working in American politics,
comparative political economy and urban sociology and capitalism
and society.
The Fictions of American Capitalism: Working Fictions and the
Economic Novel introduces a new way of thinking about fiction in
connection with capitalism, especially American capitalism. These
essays demonstrate how fiction fulfills a major function of the
American capitalist engine, presenting various formulations of
American capitalism from the perspective of economists, social
scientists, and literary critics. Focusing on three
narratives-fictitious capital, working fictions, and the economic
novel-the volume questions whether these three types of fiction can
be linked under the sign of capitalism. This collection seeks to
illustrate the American economy's dependence on fictitiousness,
America's ideological fictions, and the nation's creative literary
fiction. In relation to what the credit and banking crisis of
2007-2008 exposed about the "unreal" base of the economy, the
volume concludes with a call to recognize the economic humanities,
arguing that American fiction and American literary studies can
provide a useful mirror for economists.
The Fictions of American Capitalism: Working Fictions and the
Economic Novel introduces a new way of thinking about fiction in
connection with capitalism, especially American capitalism. These
essays demonstrate how fiction fulfills a major function of the
American capitalist engine, presenting various formulations of
American capitalism from the perspective of economists, social
scientists, and literary critics. Focusing on three
narratives-fictitious capital, working fictions, and the economic
novel-the volume questions whether these three types of fiction can
be linked under the sign of capitalism. This collection seeks to
illustrate the American economy's dependence on fictitiousness,
America's ideological fictions, and the nation's creative literary
fiction. In relation to what the credit and banking crisis of
2007-2008 exposed about the "unreal" base of the economy, the
volume concludes with a call to recognize the economic humanities,
arguing that American fiction and American literary studies can
provide a useful mirror for economists.
Despite the reversal of America's fortune from the triumphalism of
the Roaring Nineties to the gloom of the lost decade and the Great
Depression, theoretical conceptions of US capitalism have remained
surprisingly unchanged. This book departs from the American
political economy literature to identify three common myths that
have shaped our conceptualization of US capitalism: its reduction
to a state-market dyad dis-embedded from societal factors; the
illusion of a weak state and the synchronic conception of the US
variety of capitalism. To remedy these pitfalls, the authors
propose a civilizational approach to American political economy at
the crossroads between cultural studies, history, sociology and
political science. Drawing together contributions from a rich
variety of fields (from geography to cultural studies, political
science and sociology) this work sheds a new light on America's
"cultural political economy" combining theoretical reflection with
empirical data and offering innovative perspectives on the crisis
and renewal of American capitalism. This book will be of interest
to students and scholars interested in the dynamics of capitalism
and its societal ramifications beyond economics. The
multidisciplinary nature of this book also makes it a useful
learning tool for students working in American politics,
comparative political economy and urban sociology and capitalism
and society.
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Factorization Method for Boundary Value Problems by Invariant
Embedding presents a new theory for linear elliptic boundary value
problems. The authors provide a transformation of the problem in
two initial value problems that are uncoupled, enabling you to
solve these successively. This method appears similar to the Gauss
block factorization of the matrix, obtained in finite dimension
after discretization of the problem. This proposed method is
comparable to the computation of optimal feedbacks for linear
quadratic control problems.
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