The Social Life of Financial Derivatives: Markets, Risk, and Time
by Edward LiPuma (Author)

About the Author
Edward LiPuma is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Miami, coauthor of Financial Derivatives and the Globalization of Risk, also published by Duke University Press, and author of The Gift of Kinship: Structure and Practice in Maring Social Organization.

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.

Brief contents
Prefacing a Theory of the Derivative 1
Chapter 1 Originating the Derivative 27
Chapter 2 Social Theory and the Market for the Production of Financial Knowledge 81
Chapter 3 Outline of a Social Theory of Finance 116
Chapter 4 Temporality and the Financial Markets 144
Chapter 5 Theorizing the Financial Markets Socially 170
Chapter 6 Rituality and the Production of Financial Markets 199
Chapter 7 The Speculative Ethos 229
Chapter 8 The Social Habitus of Financial Work 267
Chapter 9 The Social Dimensions of Black-Scholes 304
Chapter 10 Derivatives and Wealth 336
notes 355
references 389
index 399

Series: Transactions: Critical Studies in Finance, Economy, and Theo
Pages: 424 pages
Publisher: Duke University Press Books (October 27, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0822369567
ISBN-13: 978-0822369561