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Derivatives and the Wealth of Societies

Editat de Benjamin Lee, Randy Martin
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 dec 2016
Derivatives were responsible for one of the worst financial meltdowns in history, one from which we have not yet fully recovered. However, they are likewise capable of generating some of the most incredible wealth we have ever seen. This book asks how we might ensure the latter while avoiding the former. Looking past the usual arguments for the regulation or abolition of derivative finance, it asks a more probing question: what kinds of social institutions and policies would we need to put in place to both avail ourselves of the derivative’s wealth production and make sure that production benefits all of us?
           
To answer that question, the contributors to this book draw upon their deep backgrounds in finance, social science, art, and the humanities to create a new way of understanding derivative finance that does justice to its social and cultural dimensions. They offer a two-pronged analysis. First, they develop a social understanding of the derivative that casts it in the light of anthropological concepts such as the gift, ritual, play, dividuality, and performativity. Second, they develop a derivative understanding of the social, using financial concepts such as risk, hedging, optionality, and arbitrage to uncover new dimensions of contemporary social reality. In doing so, they construct a necessary, renewed vision of derivative finance as a deeply embedded aspect not just of our economics but our culture.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780226392837
ISBN-10: 022639283X
Pagini: 312
Ilustrații: 19 halftones, 6 line drawings
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press

Notă biografică

Benjamin Lee is a University Professor of Anthropology and Philosophy at the New School and the author or coauthor of many books, including Financial Derivatives and the Globalization of Risk. Randy Martin (1957–2015) was professor of art and policy at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and is the author of many books, including An Empire of Indifference.
 

Cuprins

Preface
Introduction
Benjamin Lee and Randy Martin

Part I.
Chapter 1. The Wealth of Dividuals
Arjun Appadurai
Chapter 2. Ritual in Financial Life
Edward LiPuma
Chapter 3. From Primitives to Derivatives
Benjamin Lee

Part II.
Chapter 4. Liquidity
Robert Meister
Chapter 5. From the Critique of Political Economy to the Critique of Finance
Randy Martin

Part III.
Chapter 6. Remarks on Financial Models
Emanuel Derman
Chapter 7. On Black-Scholes
Elie Ayache
Chapter 8. Mapping the Trading Desk: Derivative Value through Market Making
Robert Wosnitzer

Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index

Recenzii

"Eight papers present the case for an integration of the social and technical understanding of derivative finance within a single analytic and interpretive frame and use what was disclosed by the global financial crisis to show how technical knowledge of derivative finance can create a single coherent interpretive and analytic language of human possibility and well-being."