Historical narrative logic structures timescapes that pure economic analysis misses

Evidence

Amin Samman (2019), for instance, argues that the eclipse of the homo politicus by homo economicus in Brown’s Foucauldian analysis of neoliberalism misses the important noneconomic structuring of “timescapes”: “the narrative logic of historical reason” that “works away at the margins or in the background of other discourses, providing a sense of antecedent, trajectory, and possibility that would otherwise be missing from a purely economic or financial perspective” (9). — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 597

Categorization

• SEED: A ‘financialized timescapes’ essay: how narrative logic of history underwrites market confidence, giving antecedent, trajectory, and possibility that pure economics can’t supply.
• XREF: connects to: Economic abstractions are historically determined, not universal or extra-historical; Memory benefits from narrative, logical structure rather than disjointed facts — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4586; Most basic income histories anachronistically assume past thinkers shared present questions — Anton Jäger and Daniel Zamora Vargas, Welfare for Markets: A Global History…, 51 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Memory benefits from narrative, logical structure rather than disjointed facts #expands (0.80) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4586
• Economic abstractions are historically determined, not universal or extra-historical #expands (0.75)