The Social Life of Financial Derivatives
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The Social Life of Financial Derivatives

Markets, Risk, and Time

  1. English
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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Social Life of Financial Derivatives

Markets, Risk, and Time

About this book

In The Social Life of Financial Derivatives Edward LiPuma theorizes the profound social dimensions of derivatives markets and the processes, rituals, and belief systems that drive them. In response to the 2008 financial crisis and drawing on his experience trading derivatives, LiPuma outlines how they function as complex devices that organize speculative capital as well as the ways derivative-driven capitalism not only produces the conditions for its own existence, but also penetrates the fabric of everyday life. Framing finance as a form of social life and highlighting the intrinsically social character of financial derivatives, LiPuma deepens our understanding of derivatives so that we may someday use them to serve the public well-being.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Prefacing a Theory of the Derivative
  5. Chapter 1: Originating the Derivative
  6. Chapter 2: Social Theory and the Market for the Production of Financial Knowledge
  7. Chapter 3: Outline of a Social Theory of Finance
  8. Chapter 4: Temporality and the Financial Markets
  9. Chapter 5: Theorizing the Financial Markets Socially
  10. Chapter 6: Rituality and the Production of Financial Markets
  11. Chapter 7: The Speculative Ethos
  12. Chapter 8: The Social Habitus of Financial Work
  13. Chapter 9: The Social Dimensions of Black-Scholes
  14. Chapter 10: Derivatives and Wealth
  15. Notes
  16. References
  17. Index