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- Book Title
- Confidence Games : Money and Markets in a World Without Redemptio
- Subject
- Business Aspects, Finance / General, General, Economics / General
- ISBN
- 9780226791685
- Subject Area
- Art, Religion, Business & Economics
- Publication Name
- Confidence Games : Money and Markets in a World Without Redemption
- Item Length
- 0.9 in
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Series
- Religion and Postmodernism Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.1 in
- Item Width
- 0.6 in
- Item Weight
- 21.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 416 Pages
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Awash in a sea of data that seems to have no meaning and bombarded by images and sounds transmitted from around the globe 24/7, people are no longer sure what is real and what is fake. Artists recycle ads in their paintings and businesses use images of artists in their ads; politicians mount campaigns based on hit films; and bankers make billions trading incomprehensible financial products backed by nothing more than abstract figures and signs. In Confidence Games , Mark C. Taylor considers the implications of these developments for our digital and increasingly virtual economy. According to Taylor, money and markets do not exist in a vacuum but grow in a profoundly cultural medium, reflecting and in turn shaping their world. To understand the recent changes in our economy, it is not enough to analyze the impact of politics and technology--one must consider the influence of art, philosophy, and religion as well. Bringing John Calvin, G. W. F. Hegel, and Adam Smith to Wall Street by way of Las Vegas, Taylor first explores the historical and psychological origins of money, the importance of religious beliefs and practices for the emergence of markets, and the unexpected role of religion and art in the classical understanding of economics. He then moves to an account of economic developments during the past four decades, exploring the dawn of our new information age, the growing virtuality of money and markets, and the complexity of the networks by which monetary value is now negotiated. Returning full circle to a version of the market first proposed by Adam Smith when he used theology and aesthetics to rethink economics, Confidence Games closes with a plea for a conception of life that embraces uncertainty and insecurity as signs of the openness of the future. Like religion and economics, life is a confidence game in which the challenge is not to find redemption but to learn to live without it. "Before the global credit system began its collapse in 2007, Mark Taylor had connected the dots between increasingly complex financial instruments and larger cultural forces. Anyone who wants to understand the disappearing foundation of our financial markets needs to read this book immediately."--Michael Lewitt, editor, The HCM Market Letter "Beyond simply dealing with 'money and markets, ' Confidence Games is a fascinating and wide-ranging tour of modern and postmodern ideas and conditions from Aristotle to Nietzsche, from Wall Street to Las Vegas."--Craig Bay, Journal of Markets & Morality
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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226791688
ISBN-13
9780226791685
eBay Product ID (ePID)
60066795
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Confidence Games : Money and Markets in a World Without Redemption
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Business Aspects, Finance / General, General, Economics / General
Publication Year
2008
Series
Religion and Postmodernism Ser.
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Art, Religion, Business & Economics
Number of Pages
416 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Width
0.6 in
Item Weight
21.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hb72.T32 2007
Table of Content
Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Paper Trails Counterfeit Detectors Displacements Currency of Art Games and Play 2. Marketing Providence "Holy Shit!" Market Makers Invisible Hand 3. Figuring Capital Artistic Absolute Economic Absolute Art of Finance 4. Money Matters Losing Weight Going Private 5. Specters of Capital Networking the Economy Creation ex Nihilo Collateral Damage 6. Yahoo Nation From Las Vegas to Times Square Finance-Entertainment Complex Com Games 7. Difference Engines From Wall Street to Las Vegas Balancing the Books Random Walks 8. In-Securities Unbalancing the Books Complexity and Contradictions in Markets 9. Rustling Religion Return of the Repressed Three Types of Theology of Culture New Realities Notes Index
Copyright Date
2008
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Decimal
307.76/408420974811
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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