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Frontiers of Capital

Author : Melissa S. Fisher
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822388235
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Frontiers of Capital written by Melissa S. Fisher and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the NASDAQ having lost 70 percent of its value, the giddy, optimistic belief in perpetual growth that accompanied the economic boom of the 1990s had fizzled by 2002. Yet the advances in information and communication technology, management and production techniques, and global integration that spurred the “New Economy” of the 1990s had triggered profound and lasting changes. Frontiers of Capital brings together ethnographies exploring how cultural practices and social relations have been altered by the radical economic and technological innovations of the New Economy. The contributors, most of whom are anthropologists, investigate changes in the practices and interactions of futures traders, Chinese entrepreneurs, residents of French housing projects, women working on Wall Street, cable television programmers, and others. Some contributors highlight how expedited flows of information allow business professionals to develop new knowledge practices. They analyze dynamics ranging from the decision-making processes of the Federal Reserve Board to the legal maneuvering necessary to buttress a nascent Japanese market in over-the-counter derivatives. Others focus on the social consequences of globalization and new modes of communication, evaluating the introduction of new information technologies into African communities and the collaborative practices of open-source computer programmers. Together the essays suggest that social relations, rather than becoming less relevant in the high-tech age, have become more important than ever. This finding dovetails with the thinking of many corporations, which increasingly employ anthropologists to study and explain the “local” cultural practices of their own workers and consumers. Frontiers of Capital signals the wide-ranging role of anthropology in explaining the social and cultural contours of the New Economy. Contributors. Jean Comaroff, John L. Comaroff, Greg Downey, Melissa S. Fisher, Douglas R. Holmes, George E. Marcus, Siobhán O’Mahony, Aihwa Ong, Annelise Riles, Saskia Sassen, Paul A. Silverstein, AbdouMaliq Simone, Neil Smith, Caitlin Zaloom

Brahmin Capitalism

Author : Noam Maggor
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674971469
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Brahmin Capitalism written by Noam Maggor and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noam Maggor shows how the moneyed elite in Gilded Age Boston leveraged their wealth to forge transcontinental networks of commodities, labor, and transportation. With the decline of cotton-based textile manufacturing, these gentleman bankers found new business opportunities in the mines, railroads, and industries of the Great West.

New Frontiers of Capital: the Geography of Commercial Real Estate Capital Flows

Author : David P. Lindahl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book New Frontiers of Capital: the Geography of Commercial Real Estate Capital Flows written by David P. Lindahl and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Role of Psychological Capital in Entrepreneurial Contexts

Author : Fu-Sheng Tsai
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2889664112
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book The Role of Psychological Capital in Entrepreneurial Contexts written by Fu-Sheng Tsai and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2021-01-21 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

New Frontiers of Capital

Author : David P. Lindahl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book New Frontiers of Capital written by David P. Lindahl and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Frontiers of Political Economy

Author : Guglielmo Carchedi
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9780860915669
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Frontiers of Political Economy written by Guglielmo Carchedi and published by Verso. This book was released on 1991 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transcending the arid formalism of present-day economic theory, Frontiers of Political Economy develops a new and accessible perspective on the world economy. Guglielmo Carchedi identifies and analyses three key features of modern capitalism: the rapidly increasing share of human labour needed for the advancement of science and technology rather than for the production of goods; the global, rather than national, nature of production, distribution and consumption; and the dominance of the oligopolies. This analysis enables Carchedi to explore new theoretical frontiers: from an original theory of mental and material labour to an investigation of the conditions under which mental labour produces value; from an assessment of the class structure of modern capitalism to an appraisal of the social content of science and technology; from an alternative account of crises, inflation and stagflation to a study of their relation to the destruction of value and to arms production. He also cast fresh light on a number of basic contemporary issues—including the present financial and monetary crisis—and surveys the most important recent controversies in language accessible to non-specialists. Rigorous and wide-ranging, but written with great lucidity, Frontiers of Political Economy is an essential book for both specialists and students in economics and politics.

Shifting Frontiers in Financial Markets

Author : D.E. Fair
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400951574
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Shifting Frontiers in Financial Markets written by D.E. Fair and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers collected in this volume are those presented at the twelfth Colloquium arranged by the Societe Universitaire Europeenne de Re cherches Financieres (SUERF) which took place in Cambridge in March 1985. The Society is supported by a large number of central banks, commercial banks and other financial and business institutions, by treasury officials and by academics and others interested in monetary and financial problems. Since its establishment in 1963 it has developed as a forum for the exchange of information, research results and ideas, valued by academics and practi tioners in these fields, including central bank officials and civil servants responsible for formulating and applying monetary and financial policies. A major activity of SUERF is to organise and conduct Colloquia on subjects of topical interest to members. The titles, places and dates of previous Colloquia for which volumes of the collected papers were pub lished are noted on the last page of this volume. Volumes were not produced for Colloquia held at Tarragona, Spain in October 1970 under the title 'Monetary Policy and New Developments in Banking' and at Stras bourg, France in January 1972 under the title 'Aspects of European Mone tary Union'.

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Author : Shoshana Zuboff
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610395700
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism written by Shoshana Zuboff and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior. In this masterwork of original thinking and research, Shoshana Zuboff provides startling insights into the phenomenon that she has named surveillance capitalism. The stakes could not be higher: a global architecture of behavior modification threatens human nature in the twenty-first century just as industrial capitalism disfigured the natural world in the twentieth. Zuboff vividly brings to life the consequences as surveillance capitalism advances from Silicon Valley into every economic sector. Vast wealth and power are accumulated in ominous new "behavioral futures markets," where predictions about our behavior are bought and sold, and the production of goods and services is subordinated to a new "means of behavioral modification." The threat has shifted from a totalitarian Big Brother state to a ubiquitous digital architecture: a "Big Other" operating in the interests of surveillance capital. Here is the crucible of an unprecedented form of power marked by extreme concentrations of knowledge and free from democratic oversight. Zuboff's comprehensive and moving analysis lays bare the threats to twenty-first century society: a controlled "hive" of total connection that seduces with promises of total certainty for maximum profit -- at the expense of democracy, freedom, and our human future. With little resistance from law or society, surveillance capitalism is on the verge of dominating the social order and shaping the digital future -- if we let it.

Brahmin Capitalism

Author : Noam Maggor
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674973887
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Brahmin Capitalism written by Noam Maggor and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-20 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracking the movement of finance capital toward far-flung investment frontiers, Noam Maggor reconceives the emergence of modern capitalism in the United States. Brahmin Capitalism reveals the decisive role of established wealth in the transformation of the American economy in the decades after the Civil War, leading the way to the nationally integrated corporate capitalism of the twentieth century. Maggor’s provocative history of the Gilded Age explores how the moneyed elite in Boston—the quintessential East Coast establishment—leveraged their wealth to forge transcontinental networks of commodities, labor, and transportation. With the decline of cotton-based textile manufacturing in New England and the abolition of slavery, these gentleman bankers traveled far and wide in search of new business opportunities and found them in the mines, railroads, and industries of the Great West. Their investments spawned new political and social conflict, in both the urbanizing East and the expanding West. In contests that had lasting implications for wealth, government, and inequality, financial power collided with more democratic visions of economic progress. Rather than being driven inexorably by technologies like the railroad and telegraph, the new capitalist geography was a grand and highly contentious undertaking, Maggor shows, one that proved pivotal for the rise of the United States as the world’s leading industrial nation.

Frontiers of Financial Management

Author : Surendra S. Singhvi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Frontiers of Financial Management written by Surendra S. Singhvi and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Frontiers of Modern Asset Allocation

Author : Paul D. Kaplan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118115066
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (181 download)

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Download or read book Frontiers of Modern Asset Allocation written by Paul D. Kaplan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-12-27 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovative approaches to putting asset allocation into practice Building on more than 15 years of asset-allocation research, Paul D. Kaplan, who led the development of the methodologies behind the Morningstar Rating(TM) and the Morningstar Style Box(TM), tackles key challenges investor professionals face when putting asset-allocation theory into practice. This book addresses common issues such as: How should asset classes be defined? Should equities be divided into asset classes based on investment style, geography, or other factors? Should asset classes be represented by market-cap-weighted indexes or should other principles, such as fundamental weights, be used? How do actively managed funds fit into asset-class mixes? Kaplan also interviews industry luminaries who have greatly influenced the evolution of asset allocation, including Harry Markowitz, Roger Ibbotson, and the late Benoit Mandelbrot. Throughout the book, Kaplan explains allocation theory, creates new strategies, and corrects common misconceptions, offering original insights and analysis. He includes three appendices that put theory into action with technical details for new asset-allocation frameworks, including the next generation of portfolio construction tools, which Kaplan dubs "Markowitz 2.0."

Frontiers of Development Economics

Author : Gerald M. Meier
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780195215922
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book Frontiers of Development Economics written by Gerald M. Meier and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2001 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With contributions from 35 leading economists, this forward-looking book explores the future of development economics against the background of the past half-century of development thought and practice. Outstanding representatives of the past two generations of development economists assess development thinking at the turn of the century and look to the unsettled questions confronting the next generation.The volume offers a thorough analysis of the broad range of issues involved in development economics, and it is especially timely in its critique of what is needed in development theory and policy to reduce poverty. An overriding issue is whether in the future 'development economics' is to be regarded simply as applied economics or whether the nature and scope of development economics will constitute a need for a special development theory to supplement general economic theory.'Frontiers of Development Economics' is an ideal reference for all those working in the international development community.

A Political Economy of Contemporary Capitalism and its Crisis

Author : Dimitris Sotiropoulos
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135037922
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book A Political Economy of Contemporary Capitalism and its Crisis written by Dimitris Sotiropoulos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-19 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent financial meltdown and the resulting global recession have rekindled debates regarding the nature of contemporary capitalism. This book analyses the ongoing financialization of the economy as a development within capitalism, and explores the ways in which it has changed the organization of capitalist power. The authors offer an interpretation of the role of the financial sphere which displays a striking contrast to the majority of contemporary heterodox approaches. Their interpretation stresses the crucial role of financial derivatives in the contemporary organization of capitalist power relations, arguing that the process of financialization is in fact entirely unthinkable in the absence of derivatives. The book also uses Marx’s concepts and some of the arguments developed in the framework of the historic Marxist controversies on economic crises in order to gain an insight into the modern neoliberal form of capitalism and the recent financial crisis. Employing a series of international case studies, this book will be essential reading for all those with an interest in the financial crisis, and all those seeking to comprehend the workings of capitalism.

Frontiers of Business Cycle Research

Author : Thomas F. Cooley
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691043234
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Frontiers of Business Cycle Research written by Thomas F. Cooley and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1995-02-26 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction to modern business cycle theory uses a neoclassical growth framework to study the economic fluctuations associated with the business cycle. Presenting advances in dynamic economic theory and computational methods, it applies concepts to t

Subaltern Frontiers

Author : Thomas Cowan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009100475
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Subaltern Frontiers written by Thomas Cowan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines how globalised urban labour and property markets are produced by agrarian actors, institutions, spaces and territories.

Frontiers in the Gilded Age

Author : Andrew Offenburger
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300225873
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Frontiers in the Gilded Age written by Andrew Offenburger and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The surprising connections between the American frontier and empire in southern Africa, and the people who participated in both This book begins in an era when romantic notions of American frontiering overlapped with Gilded Age extractive capitalism. In the late nineteenth century, the U.S.-Mexican borderlands constituted one stop of many where Americans chased capitalist dreams beyond the United States. Crisscrossing the American West, southern Africa, and northern Mexico, Andrew Offenburger examines how these frontier spaces could glitter with grandiose visions, expose the flawed and immoral strategies of profiteers, and yet reveal the capacity for resistance and resilience that indigenous people summoned when threatened. Linking together a series of stories about Boer exiles who settled in Mexico, a global network of protestant missionaries, and adventurers involved in the parallel displacements of indigenous peoples in Rhodesia and the Yaqui Indians in Mexico, Offenburger situates the borderlands of the Mexican North and the American Southwest within a global system, bound by common actors who interpreted their lives through a shared frontier ideology.

A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things

Author : Raj Patel
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1788732154
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (887 download)

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Download or read book A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things written by Raj Patel and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce has transformed, governed, and devastated Earth. In A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore present a new approach to analyzing today's planetary emergencies. Bringing the latest ecological research together with histories of colonialism, indigenous struggles, slave revolts, and other rebellions and uprisings, Patel and Moore demonstrate that throughout history, crises have always prompted fresh strategies to make the world cheap and safe for capitalism. At a time of crisis in all seven cheap things, innovative and systemic thinking is urgently required. This book proposes a radical new way of understanding-and reclaiming-the planet in the turbulent twenty-first century.