@article {6438,
	title = {Bad Economics: Hard Cash /Soft Culture},
	journal = {Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry},
	volume = {11},
	year = {2013},
	month = {2013},
	pages = {11-24},
	abstract = {The intention of this article is not to offer a counterargument for interdisciplinarity or to argue that a cultural reading of finance does not necessarily amount to doing bad economics. Rather, I want to offer a performance of {\textquotedblleft}bad economics{\textquotedblright}, informed by the belief that culture and economy have {\textquotedblleft}always already{\textquotedblright} been fused. From this perspective, thinking about economy outside the context of a conjunctural analysis of cultural knowledge and practices{\textemdash}including popular culture{\textemdash}is not an option and, therefore, collapsing into a reductive {\textquotedblleft}us versus them{\textquotedblright} default position is ruled out from the outset. In other words, this article brings cultural studies to questions of economics in life and death issues as a means of addressing the present moment and the changing ways in which we now talk about economies. Throughout this essay, therefore, I will argue from the assumption that culture and economy are as inseparable from one another as the sides of a sheet of paper. },
	issn = {1532-5555}
}
