Article ID: CBB001420734

Das Wissen der Schulden. Recht, Kulturtechnik und Alltagserfahrung im liberalen Kapitalismus (2014)

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The Knowledge of Debt: Law, Media Technique, and Everyday Experience in Liberal Capitalism. Performing an object such as `the economy' hinges on practices of formatting knowledge. The article proposes to look at such instituting moments in connection with social conflicts over the legitimate rules of exchange. This is exemplified by way of recounting the story of the codification of Swiss bankruptcy law in 1889. In order to homogenize the legal procedures of debt collection and bankruptcy, two subject categories were instituted: `merchants' and `non-merchants'. These different categories were thought to account for the diverging temporalities and spaces of credit exchange in everyday economic life. The introduction of the commercial register, a media-technical apparatus, enabled a formal distinction between `merchants' and `non-merchants'. However, this boundary was contested and proved to be porose.

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Authors & Contributors
Vause, Erika
Guy, Stéphane
Traugh, Geoffrey
Mitchell, Timothy
Söderberg, Gabriel
Herron, James
Concepts
Economics
Capitalism
Science and politics
Law and legislation
Social sciences
Controversies and disputes
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
Modern
Enlightenment
21st century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Manchuria
Switzerland
Sweden
Japan
France
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