Financial Derivatives and the Globalization of Risk
1st Edition
Published on 29. September 2004
224 pages
978-0-8223-8612-4 (ISBN)
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Cultural studies exploration of the implications of the circulation of increasingly abstract forms of capital in the contemporary global economy.
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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.
Content
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
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
