Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/309363 
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2018
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[Journal:] Finance and Society [ISSN:] 2059-5999 [Volume:] 4 [Issue:] 2 [Year:] 2018 [Pages:] 181-187
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University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
Abstract: 
How exactly did the neoliberal imaginary that Konings describes gain so much traction? Was its speculative temporality smoothly translated into practice from the writings of Hayek and others as he suggests, or was its production a messier, more contested, and more contingent affair? In this brief commentary, I go back to one of the key historical moments that he examines, the Volcker shock of 1979-82, and examine some of the more mundane political and technical struggles that defined the early Reagan Administration's efforts to put the neoliberal speculative logic into practice. By revealing the often-flawed material efforts that go into producing speculative temporalities, I argue that such struggles might allow us to arrive at a less teleological account of the resilience of neoliberalism.
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