Financial imagination runs on passion animated, not passion tamed

Evidence

As Appadurai (2011) puts it, the “heroes of the financial imaginary are precisely not about the taming of the ‘passions’ by the ‘interests’ … but rather are about the animation of the interests by the passions” (524). — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 687

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: This directly contradicts the classical moral-economy thesis that markets tame the passions with interests, which could feed either of the reader’s finance pieces as their animating reframe.
• XREF: connects to: Populist passions animate rather than oppose financial rationality — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 268

Broader Connections

• Populist passions animate rather than oppose financial rationality #corroborates (0.92) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 268