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Strange loops: Producing history in financial times

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2023

Amin Samman
Amin Samman*
Affiliation:
City, University of London, UK
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Corresponding author: Amin Samman, Department ofInternational Politics, City, University of London, Northampton Square, LondonEC1V 0HB, UK. Email: amin.samman.1@city.ac.uk.
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In this rejoinder, I discuss three fundamental deadlocks raised by contributors to this forum. These relate to the status of historical discourse, financial market logics, and above all the figure of the ‘strange loop’, which I put forward as a means of reorienting historical thought. I also offer some preliminary remarks on why History in Financial Times departs from conventional forms of historicism in political economy, as well as a further set of reflections on the contemporaneity of the book's argumentation.

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Forum: History in financial times
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Finance and Society , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , 2020 , pp. 148 - 156
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