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Edges of the financial imagination

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2023

Amin Samman*
Affiliation:
City, University of London, UK
Martijn Konings
Affiliation:
University of Sydney, Australia
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Corresponding author: Amin Samman, Department ofInternational Politics, City, University of London, Northampton Square, London,EC1V 0HB, UK. Email: amin.samman.1@city.ac.uk.
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Neither external nor internal to finance, the financial imagination marks out a space where the theoretical and practical aspects of finance come together in the inner life of the subject. That means there is something about financial subjectivity that escapes a functional view on the imagination. The purpose of this forum is to probe the contours of the financial imagination in terms of its perimeters and blind spots, its fantasies and delusions.

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