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Derivatives and the Wealth of Societies (Hardcover)
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Derivatives and the Wealth of Societies (Hardcover)
Series: mersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
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Derivatives were responsible for one of the worst financial
meltdowns we have ever seen, 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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