Appadurai, Arjun,  1949- <br/><br/>
Banking on words :  The failure of language in the age of derivative finance / 
Arjun Appadurai. 
 - viii, 180 pages ;  23 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-170) and index. 
<br/><br/>The logic of promissory finance -- The entrepreneurial ethic and the spirit of financialism -- The ghost in the financial machine -- The sacred market -- Sociality, uncertainty, and ritual -- The charismatic derivative -- The wealth of dividuals -- The global ambitions of finance -- The end of the contractual promise. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9788125060758 9780226318776 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2015009033 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Derivative securities--Social aspects.<br/>Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HG6024.A3  / A67 2016 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>332.6457 APP