Lee / LiPuma / Gaonkar Financial Derivatives and the Globalization of Risk

1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8612-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten

Reihe: Public planet books

Cultural studies exploration of the implications of the circulation of increasingly abstract forms of capital in the contemporary global economy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lee, Benjamin

LiPuma, Edward

Gaonkar, Dilip Parameshwar

Kramer, Jane

Warner, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Anlagen & Wertpapiere

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.