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- Book Title
- Codes of Finance: Engineering Derivatives in a Global Bank
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Intended Audience
- Adult
- Inscribed
- NO
- ISBN
- 9780691151502
- Subject Area
- Social Science, Business & Economics
- Publication Name
- Codes of Finance : Engineering Derivatives in a Global Bank
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Item Length
- 9.5 in
- Subject
- Investments & Securities / Derivatives, Banks & Banking, Finance / Financial Engineering, Finance / General, Sociology / General, Sales & Selling / General
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Item Weight
- 19 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 312 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0691151504
ISBN-13
9780691151502
eBay Product ID (ePID)
108236623
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
312 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Codes of Finance : Engineering Derivatives in a Global Bank
Subject
Investments & Securities / Derivatives, Banks & Banking, Finance / Financial Engineering, Finance / General, Sociology / General, Sales & Selling / General
Publication Year
2011
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science, Business & Economics
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
19 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2011-020249
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
“The first in-depth anthropological study of how banks invent new financial products. . . . Lepinay spent nearly two years in a huge French bank . . . and his study is both highly revealing and slightly farcical.”– The Guardian, “We are the masters of what we create–that is the myth. The reality is that we often do not even understand what we create. As Lépinay shows, this is the case with today’s engineered financial products. This book is an important step toward solving the mystery of the lack of mastery in the world of finance.” –Bruno Latour, coauthor of Laboratory Life, ” Codes of Finance is an unusual, provocative, and compelling account of today’s structured financial products, from their inception at the desks and computer screens of financial engineers through their evolving agency in the world of trading, to their marketing, sale, and explosive afterlives. This is a tour de force merging science and technology studies with the new social studies of finance, and essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the codes and pragmatic unfoldings of contemporary financial capitalism.” –Bill Maurer, University of California, Irvine, “In this rich and fascinating ethnography, Vincent Lépinay takes the reader through the front and back offices of derivatives trading. Lépinay understands the codes–the secrets, the software, and the silent frames–of finance. This is must reading for economic sociologists as well as for anyone interested in the forefront of new research on organizations and technology. A wonderful book.” –David Stark, author of The Sense of Dissonance: Accounts of Worth in Economic Life, ” Codes of Finance sets a new standard for the ethnography of finance. This is the first ethnographic study to focus directly on financial formulas (or “products”), without caricaturing them or domesticating financial reasoning to well-trodden academic debates. It powerfully communicates the detail of financial knowledge–detail about the formulas, their production, and their interpretation by various human and nonhuman actants–from an astonishing range of vantage points within the knowledge production process. The book is a must-read for anthropologists of knowledge and for creative thinkers within the financial markets alike.” –Annelise Riles, author of Collateral Knowledge: Legal Reasoning in the Global Financial Markets, “The first in-depth anthropological study of how banks invent new financial products. . . . Lepinay spent nearly two years in a huge French bank that he refers to as General Bank, and his study is both highly revealing and slightly farcical.”– The Guardian, The first in-depth anthropological study of how banks invent new financial products. . . . Lepinay spent nearly two years in a huge French bank that he refers to as General Bank, and his study is both highly revealing and slightly farcical. — The Guardian, “We have not seen an ethnography like Codes of Finance in a long time. Through the prism of innovative financial services designed in a French bank, Vincent Lépinay asks us to revise our conception of organizations, innovations, profit, and speculation, and makes clear why the issue is not so much how to get rid of derivatives as why we need to understand them.” –Michel Callon, école des Mines de Paris, “The first in-depth anthropological study of how banks invent new financial products. . . . Lpinay spent nearly two years in a huge French bank . . . And his study is both highly revealing and slightly farcical.” — The Guardian, “The first in-depth anthropological study of how banks invent new financial products. . . . Lépinay spent nearly two years in a huge French bank . . . And his study is both highly revealing and slightly farcical.” — The Guardian, “The first in-depth anthropological study of how banks invent new financial products. . . . Lépinay spent nearly two years in a huge French bank . . . And his study is both highly revealing and slightly farcical.”– The Guardian, The first in-depth anthropological study of how banks invent new financial products. . . . Lepinay spent nearly two years in a huge French bank that he refers to as General Bank, and his study is both highly revealing and slightly farcical., “Investment banks are enormously important, yet few social scientists have been inside them. Lépinay’s fine ethnography takes us into trading rooms and back offices, examining machines as well as people, and investigating the variety of specialized languages needed to capture the properties of financial products. His book is a vital introduction to a style of economic sociology very different from that dominant in the Anglo-American world.” –Donald MacKenzie, author of An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets, The first in-depth anthropological study of how banks invent new financial products. . . . Lépinay spent nearly two years in a huge French bank . . . And his study is both highly revealing and slightly farcical.
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
332.6457
Synopsis
A behind-the-scenes account of the derivatives business at a major investment bank The financial industry’s invention of complex products such as credit default swaps and other derivatives has been widely blamed for triggering the global financial crisis of 2008. In Codes of Finance , Vincent Antonin Lépinay, a former employee of one of the world’s leading investment banks, takes readers behind the scenes of the equity derivatives business at the bank before the crisis, providing a detailed firsthand account of the creation, marketing, selling, accounting, and management of these financial instruments–and of how they ultimately created havoc inside and outside the bank., The financial industry’s invention of complex products such as credit default swaps and other derivatives has been widely blamed for triggering the global financial crisis of 2008. In Codes of Finance , Vincent Antonin L pinay, a former employee of one of the world’s leading investment banks, takes readers behind the scenes of the equity derivatives business at the bank before the crisis, providing a detailed firsthand account of the creation, marketing, selling, accounting, and management of these financial instruments–and of how they ultimately created havoc inside and outside the bank.
LC Classification Number
HG176.7L47 2011
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