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Banking on Words: The Failure of Language in the Age of Derivative Finance
Published by University of Chicago Press, 2015
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Banking on Words : The Failure of Language in the Age of Derivative Finance
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Banking on Words: The Failure of Language in the Age of Derivative Finance
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Banking on Words : The Failure of Language in the Age of Derivative Finance
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Banking on Words: The Failure of Language in the Age of Derivative Finance
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Banking on Words: The Failure of Language in the Age of Derivative Finance
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Banking on Words: The Failure of Language in the Age of Derivative Finance
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Banking on Words: The Failure of Language in the Age of Derivative Finance
Published by University Of Chicago Press, 2015
ISBN 10: 022631877X ISBN 13: 9780226318776
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Banking on Words - The Failure of Language in the Age of Derivative Finance
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Banking on Words : The Failure of Language in the Age of Derivative Finance
Published by University of Chicago Press, 2015
ISBN 10: 022631877X ISBN 13: 9780226318776
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Banking on Words - The Failure of Language in the Age of Derivative Finance
Published by University of Chicago Press, 2015
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Preface. 1. The logic of promissory finance. 2. The entrepreneurial ethic and the spirit of financialism. 3. The ghost in the financial machine. 4. The sacred market. 5. Sociality, uncertainty and ritual. 6. The charismatic derivative. 7. The wealth of individuals. 8. The global ambitions of finance. 9. The end of the contractual promise. Notes. References. Index. Renowned scholar Arjun Appadurai argues that the economic collapse of 2008, while indeed spurred on by greed, ignorance, weak regulation, and irresponsible risk-taking, was ultimately a failure of language. To prove this point, he takes us into the world of derivative finance, which is now the core of contemporary trading and the primary target of blame for the collapse. Through his incisive analysis, Appadurai draws on thinkers such as J. L. Austin, Marcel Mauss, and Max Weber as theoretical guides to showcase the ways language-and particular failures in it-paved the way for ruin. He also highlights the importance of derivatives in contemporary finance, isolating them as the core technical innovation that markets have produced. shows that derivatives are essentially written contracts about the future prices of assets-they are, crucially, a promise. pinpoints one crucial feature of derivatives (seen especially in the housing market)-that they function as complicated promises that are used to speculate on the probability of others not keeping their promises-and details how this feature spread like a contagion through the market. With his characteristic clarity, Appadurai explains one of the most complicated aspects of our modern economy, and makes the critical link between the numerical force of money and the linguistic force of what we say we will do with it. Banking on Words will be of considerable interest to scholars and students of cultural and social anthropology, economics, and language and linguistics.
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Banking on Words: The Failure of Language in the Age of Derivative Finance (Paperback or Softback)
Published by University of Chicago Press 11/19/2015, 2015
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Banking on Words: The Failure of Language in the Age of Derivative Finance
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Banking on Words : The Failure of Language in the Age of Derivative Finance
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Banking on Words - The Failure of Language in the Age of Derivative Finance
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Banking on Words : The Failure of Language in the Age of Derivative Finance
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Add to basketTaschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - In this short but ambitious book, Arjun Appadurai argues that the failure of the financial system in 2007-08 in the United States was primarily a failure of language. This argument does not deny that greed, ignorance, weak regulation, and irresponsible risk-taking were important factors in the collapse. But the new role of language in the marketplace, for Appadurai, is the condition of possibility for all these more easily identifiable flaws. Attempts to rectify the social pathologies of contemporary finance must address that failure of language. 'Banking on Words 'focuses on derivatives as the distinctive innovation of our financial era. Derivatives are written promises concerning the uncertain future prices of financial assets and the substance of these contracts is expressed in terms of money. The recent failure of derivatives markets was systematic and should be understood as failed promises. While it is well-known that derivatives pile risk on risk with little basis in real production and trade, Appadurai reveals this process in a fresh light from which some policy conclusions may be drawn. While critical of derivative finance s present social infrastructure and supporting ideology, Appadurai acknowledges its capacity for creating vast new forms of wealth and asks the crucial question: if we want access to that wealth, what kind of social arrangements would we need to make sure that it benefits all of society rather than reinforcing a system that benefits the few who are already well off His bold answer involves not the repair of the force of promises but rather the repair and reconstruction of the idea of the individual to enable new sorts of solidarity between dividuals, agents whose very partiality may allow for new aggregations of aspiration, interest and affiliation. This amounts to nothing less than a new ideology of sociality.'.
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Banking on Words : The Failure of Language in the Age of Derivative Finance
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Banking on Words: The Failure of Language in the Age of Derivative Finance
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Banking on Words: The Failure of Language in the Age of Derivative Finance
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Banking on Words: The Failure of Language in the Age of Derivative Finance (eng)
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Banking on Words : The Failure of Language in the Age of Derivative Finance
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Banking on Words: The Failure of Language in the Age of Derivative Finance
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Banking on Words: The Failure of Language in the Age of Derivative Finance
Published by University of Chicago Press, 2015
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Banking on Words - The Failure of Language in the Age of Derivative Finance
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