LiPuma The Social Life of Financial Derivatives

Markets, Risk, and Time
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7283-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 416 Seiten

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and his experience trading derivatives, Edward LiPuma theorizes the profound social dimensions of derivatives markets and the processes, rituals, mentalities, and belief systems that drive them.

Autoren/Hrsg.

LiPuma, Edward

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
Prefacing a Theory of the Derivative 1
1. Originating the Derivative 27
2. Social Theory and the Market for the Production of Financial Knowledge 81
3. Outline of a Social Theory of Finance 116
4. Temporality and the Financial Markets 144
5. Theorizing the Financial Markets Socially 170
6. Rituality and the Production of Financial Markets 199
7. The Specualtive Ethos 229
8. The Social Habitus of Financial Work 267
9. The Social Dimensions of Black-Scholes 304
10. Derivatives and Wealth 336
Notes 355
References 389
Index 399

Über Autor(innen)

Edward LiPuma is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Miami, coauthor of Financial Derivatives and the Globalization of Risk, also published by Duke University Press, and author of The Gift of Kinship: Structure and Practice in Maring Social Organization.