'It's the romance, not the finance, that makes the business worth pursuing': disclosing a new market culture

By Nigel Thrift. 2001

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Platform capitalism: the intermediation and capitalization of digital economic circulation (2017, unknown): “Our demarcation of domains of circulation and platform types also excludes what might be described as ‘mainstream’ e-commerce which arrived with much fanfare during the ‘new economy’ or ‘dot com’ boom of the late 1990s (Feng et al. 2001; Thrift 2001; Zook 2005).”
Performing finance: the industry, the media and its image (2004, background): “…(technology, media and telecommunications) boom, have been both the object of the reporting media and one of the key means of propagating expectations until the illogics of speculation are undermined, sometimes by the merest rumour (Kindleberger, 1978; Shiller, 2000; Williams, 2001; Thrift, 2001).”
Common cents: situating money in time and place (2005, background): “Moreover, as actor-network theory suggests, in that networks of information are iterative and reciprocal, discourse about the economy ‘performs, shapes and formats the economy’ (Callon 1998: 2; Thrift 2001; Peck and Tickell 2002).”
Enterprise Ritual: A Theory of Entrepreneurial Emotion and Exchange (2008, unknown): “(b) ‘Stories and narratives’: specific accounts of enterprising actors’ exploits with dramatic emphasis on triumph against adversity, struggle against apparently insurmountable odds, and/or the victory of rugged individualism over institutional myopia (Thrift, 2001; Ross, 2003).”
The Spaces and Subjects of a Globalising Economy: A Situated Exploration of Method (2002, background): “Thrift (1998; 2000; 2001) provides some initial answers in his work on the `fast' managerial subject.”
Economic Sociologies in Space (2005, background): “Explaining the production and utilization of different market scripts—from the new-economy stories of the last American boom through post-Fordist discourses on the social-democratic Left to the master narratives of neoliberal globalism, free trade, and free markets (see GibsonGraham 1996; Dicken, Pe”
Take an issue: cultural economy and finance (2007, background): “2004; Hall 2006; Leyshon and Tickell 1994; Pryke and Allen 2000; Thrift 1997, 2000, 2001a, 2001b, 2002, 2005; Tickell 2000, 2003) whose overall aim is to ‘jettison unhelpful distinctions between the separate spheres of economy and culture’ (Tickell 2003: 125) in order to progress richer…”
In the eye of the ‘perfect storm’: the final salary pensions crisis and financialisation of Anglo‐American capitalism (2004, background): “With knowledge industries and the media to the fore, the appeal to the notion of the new economy—as ‘both a description and, at the same time, an assumption of what constitutes a normal future’—fuelled speculation in the assets of information and communications technology companies in particular.(51”
SMEs and e‐business (2004, background): “… consists of strong non-inflationary growth arising out of the increasing influence of information and communications technology and the associated restructuring of economic activity … [embracing features such as] … the growth of small high-tech firms, the increasing importance of mobile and highly”
Financialisation, Financial Literacy and Asset-Based Welfare (2009, background): “Alternatively it has been conceived in terms of a more general ‘culturalisation’ of the economy (Lash and Urry 1994) that attends to, for instance, the ‘cultural circuits of capitalism’ composed of the interactions of business schools, management consultants and specialist financial media (Thrift 20”