Steve Lambert in The Discourses of Capitalism: Everyday Economists and the Production of Common Sense
Steve Lambert’s (MFA 2006) street art installation – “Capitalism Works For Me! True/False” — has made its way into The Discourses of Capitalism: Everyday Economists and the Production of Common Sense. The authors examined the discourses of capitalism taken up by people in their responses to ”Capitalism Works For Me! True/False,” pouring through raw video interviews Steve recorded at Times Square, London, Cedar Rapids, and Boston. The authors used that source material to consider several key questions, including:
How do everyday people view and make sense of capitalism and its role in their work and personal lives?
What are the discourses they use in their common-sense understandings of the economy to defend or reject capitalism as a system?
The Discourses of Capitalism: Everyday Economists and the Production of Common Sense looks at how dominant discourses in social circulation operate to co-construct and support capitalism, and the accompanying counter-discourses that critique it.
