Banking on words
Subtitle: the failure of language in the age of derivative finance
By: Arjun Appadurai
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780226318639; 9780226318776
Subjects: Social aspects; Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009; Derivative securities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-170) and index.
Table of contents: title: The logic of promissory finance; title: The entrepreneurial ethic and the spirit of financialism; title: The ghost in the financial machine; title: The sacred market; title: Sociality, uncertainty, and ritual; title: The charismatic derivative; title: The wealth of dividuals; title: The global ambitions of finance; title: The end of the contractual promise.