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Revaluation fantasy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2023

Fabian Muniesa
Fabian Muniesa*
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Mines Paris at PSL University, France
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Corresponding author: Fabian Muniesa, Centre deSociologie de l'Innovation, Mines Paris, 60 Boulevard Saint-Michel, 75006Paris, France. Email: fabian.muniesa@minesparis.psl.eu.
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Financial conspiracies today blend together antisemitic tropes and spiritual visions with ideals of political reform and economic salvation. It is tempting to locate such phenomena at the periphery of the financial order, situating them within a delusional space beyond judicious concepts of money, finance, wealth, and value. But is also possible to take paranoid finance as an extreme, radical appropriation of a logic inherent in finance.

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Forum: Edges of the financial imagination
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Finance and Society , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , 2023 , pp. 73 - 75
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