Benjamin Lee

Financial Derivatives and the Globalization of Risk

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"The prominence of a new kind of speculative finance capital in organizing global order and disorder is a topic of vital contemporary importance. By addressing this topic, this short, clear account advances the somewhat muddled debates over economic globalization."--Craig Calhoun, president of the Social Science Research Council

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 205mm x 134mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 241g
• ISBN-13: 9780822334187
• ISBN-10: 0822334186
• Artikelnr.: 14044517

Autorenporträt

Edward LiPuma is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Miami. He is the author of Encompassing Others: The Magic of Modernity in Melanesia and coeditor of Bourdieu: Critical Perspectives. Benjamin Lee is Professor of Anthropology and Philosophy at New School University and Dean of its Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science. He is the author of Talking Heads: Language, Metalanguage, and the Semiotics of Subjectivity (published by Duke University Press) and coeditor of Semiotics, Self, and Society.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix
1. Global Flows and the Politics of Circulation 1
2. Derivatives, Risk, and Speculative Capital 33
3. Historical Conjunctures 67
4. The Institutional Basis of Derivatives 85
5. Deriving the Derivative 107
6. The World of Risk 141
7. Derivatives and the Stability of the State 161
Glossary 191
Notes 195
Bibliography 201
Index 207