The Literature of Derivative Finance
- The financial world is typically seen as a miasma of numbers, which help to make it abstract and opaque. This essay argues that the forms and techniques of the financial world have a strong literary and linguistic dimension. This dimension can be seen in the form of the derivative, whose workings show how traders, central bankers, and analysts rely centrally on the written, spoken, and narrated word and its performative powers.
Document Type: | Article |
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Language: | English |
Author(s): | Arjun Appadurai |
Parent Title (English): | Diacritics |
ISSN: | 0300-7162 (print), 1080-6539 (online) |
Publication year: | 2019 |
Publishing Institution: | Hertie School |
First Page: | 48 |
Last Page: | 61 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1353/dia.2019.0010 |
Release Date: | 2020/06/11 |
Volume: | 47 |
Issue: | 1 |
Licence of document (German): | Metadaten / metadata |