{"product_id":"downward-mobility-9781421437613","title":"Downward Mobility","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow do the stories we tell about money shape our economies?Beginning in the late eighteenth century, as constant growth became the economic norm throughout Europe, fictional stories involving money were overwhelmingly about loss. Novel after novel tells the tale of bankruptcy and financial failure, of people losing everything and ending up in debtor's prison, of inheritances lost and daughters left orphaned and poor. In Downward Mobility, Katherine Binhammer argues that these stories of ruin are not simple tales about the losers of capitalism but narratives that help manage speculation of capital's inevitable collapse.   Bringing together contemporary critical finance studies with eighteenth-century literary history, Binhammer demonstrates the centrality of the myth of downward mobility to the cultural history of capitalismand to the emergence of the novel in Britain. Deftly weaving economic history and formal analysis, Binhammer reveals how capitalism requires the novel's complex tech\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations \u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction \u003cbr\u003e1. Fictitious Capital and the Social History of Debt \u003cbr\u003e2. Leveraging Fiction: When Debt Becomes Equity \u003cbr\u003e3. Narrative Exchange: The Value of Stories-within-Stories \u003cbr\u003e4. The Plot of Capital I: \u003ci\u003eCecilia\u003c\/i\u003e and Risk Management \u003cbr\u003e5. The Plot of Capital II: \u003ci\u003eCamilla\u003c\/i\u003e, Closure, and the Realization of Capital \u003cbr\u003eEpilogue \u003cbr\u003eNotes \u003cbr\u003eBibliography \u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408137724247,"sku":"9781421437613","price":22.88,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421437613.jpg?v=1730501724","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/downward-mobility-9781421437613","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}