期刊名称：Economic Sociology : the European Electronic Newsletter
印刷版ISSN：1871-3351
出版年度：2011
卷号：12
期号：2
出版社：Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
摘要：By taking a broader view of money than its current identification
with finance, I aim to historicize the present by
placing it within a long-term process of social development,
in the process offering a new explanation for our
economic problems. I take the financial crisis to mean the
fall of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 and the subsequent
attempts of leading governments to stave off economic
collapse by using taxpayers’ money to save the
banks. Now that their capacity to print new money has
been almost exhausted, the world is in the grip of a growing
sovereign debt crisis where several minor European
countries may be followed by the default of Japan, Britain
or even the United States. This is a turning point. Its denouement
may be global depression, world war, fascism or
democratic revolution, but eventually the contours of a
new era for the world will become clearer. One way of
approaching this moment of transition is to ask not what is
beginning, but what is ending. This is not straightforward
either.
