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Banking on words : the failure of language in the age of derivative finance
- Title
- Banking on words : the failure of language in the age of derivative finance / Arjun Appadurai.
- Author
- Appadurai, Arjun, 1949-
- Publication
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2016]
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Details
- Description
- viii, 180 pages; 23 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-170) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JBE 16-174
- ISBN
- 9780226318639
- 022631863X
- 9780226318776
- 022631877X
- 9780226318806 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2015009033
- OCLC
- 906027841
- Author
- Appadurai, Arjun, 1949- author.
- Title
- Banking on words : the failure of language in the age of derivative finance / Arjun Appadurai.
- Publisher
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2016]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-170) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JBE 16-174