Magical capitalism : enchantment, spells, and occult practices in contemporary economies /: enchantment, spells, and occult practices in contemporary economies. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Brian Moeran, Timothy de Waal Malefyt.
• Editors: Moeran, Brian, 1944-; Malefyt, Timothy de Waal
• Contents: 1. Magical Capitalism: An Introduction2. Magical Contracts, Numinous Capitalism3. Exorcising Leverage: Sleight of Hand and the Invisible Hand in Islamic Finance4. Trickster's Triumph: Donald Trump and the New Spirit of Capitalism5.Fetish, Magic, Marketing6 Magical Names: Glamour, Enchantment, and Illusion in Women's Fashion Magazines7. The Magic of Paradox: How Advertising Ideas Transform Art into Business and the Ordinary into the Extraordinary8. The Business of Inspiration: A Magical Technology of Prefiguration9. The Magic Trick of Creative Capital: Competition, Confidence, and Collective Enchantment Among 'Starchitects'10. Anthropology as Science Fiction, or How Print Capitalism Enchanted Victorian Science 11. The Magic of Mass Publicity: Reading Ioan Coulia12 Occult Economies, Revisited 13. The Enchantment Effect: A Semiotics of Boundary and Profit.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 133.43; Magic -- Economic aspects; Capitalism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319743974
• Related ISBNs: 9783319743967
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