BANKING ON WORDS

In this provocative look at one of the most important events of our time, renowned scholar Arjun Appadurai argues that the economic collapse of 2008while indeed spurred on by greed, ignorance, weak regulation, and irresponsible risk-takingwas, ultimately, a fail ure of language. To prove this sophisticated point, he takes us into the world of derivative finance, which has become the core of c ontemporary trading and the primary target of blame for the collapse and all our subsequent woes. With incisive argumentation, he an alyzes this...[Read more]