Resisting the lure of the paycheck: Freedom and dependence in financial self-help

Foucault Studies

Volumn , Issue 18, 2014, Pages 90-112

  Fridman, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Dependence; Ethnography; Financial freedom; Governmentality; Neoliberal; Self help; Technologies of the self

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908349045     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18325203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22439/fs.v0i18.4653     Document Type: Article

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