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Banking on Words

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

Banking on Words

By Arjun Appadurai

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About the book

In this provocative look at one of the most important events of our time, renowned scholar Arjun Appadurai argues that the economic collapse of 2008--while indeed spurred on by greed, ignorance, weak regulation, and irresponsible risk-taking--was, ultimately, a failure of language. To prove this sophisticated point, he takes us into the world of derivative finance, which has become the core of contemporary trading and the primary target of blame for the collapse and all our subsequent woes. With...Show more

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9780226318776

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The University of Chicago Press

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2015

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Banking on Words

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