The economy is a constructed concept rather than a natural object.
Evidence
- Samuel A. Chambers, There’s No Such Thing as “The Economy”: Essays on Capitalist Value (Punctum Books, 2018), 44–45. Also see Timothy Mitchell, “The Work of Economics: How a Discipline Makes Its World,” European Journal of Sociology 46, no. 2 (2005): 297–320. — Andrew deWaard, Derivative Media, 538
Categorization
- XREF: Chambers’ thesis that ‘the economy’ is not an existing thing parallels the reader’s core question about whether financial ownership is a construct that shapes texts. — connects to: The economy’s weight relative to society varies historically rather than ontologically — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1176; Value in the bio-economy is produced through valuation practices, not intrinsic to biological matter. — Kean Birch, Rethinking Value in the Bio-economy:…, 1; Capitalism’s apparent naturalness is a constructed hoax, not an inevitability. — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 26 (+8 more)