The Spirit of Calculation

被引:41
作者
Appadurai, Arjun [1 ]
机构
[1] NYU, Media Culture & Commun, New York, NY 10003 USA
关键词
Max Weber; calculation; uncertainty; financial capital; ethos;
D O I
10.3167/ca.2012.300102
中图分类号
Q98 [人类学];
学科分类号
030303 ;
摘要
This paper 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.
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