Cover Image

Banking on words : the failure of language in the age of derivative finance /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Appadurai, Arjun, 1949- (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Subjects:
Derivative securities > Social aspects.
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The logic of promissory finance
  • The entrepreneurial ethic and the spirit of financialism
  • The ghost in the financial machine
  • The sacred market
  • Sociality, uncertainty, and ritual
  • The charismatic derivative
  • The wealth of dividuals
  • The global ambitions of finance
  • The end of the contractual promise.