Arbitraging Japan: Dreams of Capitalism at the End of Finance - Softcover

Miyazaki, Hirokazu

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520273486 ISBN 13: 9780520273481

Publisher: University of California Press, 2013

Synopsis

For many financial market professionals worldwide, the era of high finance is over. The times in which bankers and financiers were the primary movers and shakers of both economy and society have come to an abrupt halt. What has this shift meant for the future of capitalism? What has it meant for the future of the financial industry? What about the lives and careers of financial operators who were once driven by utopian visions of economic, social, and personal transformation? And what does it mean for critics of capitalism who have long predicted the end of financial institutions? Hirokazu Miyazaki answers these questions through a close examination of the careers and intellectual trajectories of a group of pioneering derivatives traders in Japan during the 1990s and 2000s.

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Review:

"I heartily recommend [this book] to readers who are seriously interested in finance, market economics, or capitalism... brimming with lucid analysis and profound insight."-- (05/02/2016)

About the Author:

Hirokazu Miyazaki is Director of the East Asia Program and Professor of Anthropology at Cornell University.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0520273486
• ISBN 13: 9780520273481
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 181