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Informationen zum Autor Edward LiPuma is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Miami. He is the author of Encompassing Others: The Magic of Modernity in Melanesia and coeditor of Bourdieu: Critical Perspectives.Benjamin Lee is Professor of Anthropology and Philosophy at New School University and Dean of its Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science. He is the author of Talking Heads: Language, Metalanguage, and the Semiotics of Subjectivity (published by Duke University Press) and coeditor of Semiotics, Self, and Society. Klappentext "The prominence of a new kind of speculative finance capital in organizing global order and disorder is a topic of vital contemporary importance. By addressing this topic, this short, clear account advances the somewhat muddled debates over economic globalization."--Craig Calhoun, president of the Social Science Research Council Zusammenfassung Cultural studies exploration of the implications of the circulation of increasingly abstract forms of capital in the contemporary global economy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface ix 1. Global Flows and the Politics of Circulation 1 2. Derivatives, Risk, and Speculative Capital 33 3. Historical Conjunctures 67 4. The Institutional Basis of Derivatives 85 5. Deriving the Derivative 107 6. The World of Risk 141 7. Derivatives and the Stability of the State 161 Glossary 191 Notes 195 Bibliography 201 Index 207
