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The Price of Misfortune : Rights and Wrongs in Indebted America.
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ISBN: 022673403X 9780226734033 9780226733982 022673398X Year: 2023 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago Press

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Hedged out : inequality and insecurity on Wall Street
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ISBN: 0520973801 9780520307704 0520307704 0520307712 9780520307711 Year: 2022 Publisher: Oakland, California: University of California press,

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"Who do you think of when you imagine a hedge fund manager? A greedy fraudster, a visionary entrepreneur, a wolf of Wall Street? These tropes capture the public imagination of a successful hedge fund manager. But behind the designer suits, helicopter commutes, and illicit pursuits are the everyday stories of people who work in the hedge fund industry--many of whom don't realize they fall within the '1 percent' that drives the divide between the richest and the rest. With Hedged Out, sociologist and former hedge fund analyst Megan Tobias Neely gives readers an outsider's insider perspective on Wall Street and its enduring culture of inequality. Hedged Out dives into the upper echelons of Wall Street, where elite White masculinity is the standard measure for the capacity to manage risk and insecurity. Facing an unpredictable and risky stock market, hedge fund workers protect their interests by working long hours and building tight-knit networks with people who look and behave like them. Using ethnographic vignettes and her own industry experience, Neely showcases the voices of managers and other workers to illustrate how this industry of politically mobilized elites excludes people on the basis of race, class, and gender. Neely shows how this system of elite power and privilege not only sustains itself but builds over time as the beneficiaries concentrate their resources. Hedged Out explains why the hedge fund industry generates extreme wealth, why mostly White men benefit, and why reforming Wall Street will create a more equal society"--


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Extraction ecologies and the literature of the long exhaustion
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ISBN: 0691230552 0691205264 0691205531 9780691205267 9780691205533 Year: 2021 Publisher: Princeton: Princeton university press,

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How literature of the British imperial world contended with the social and environmental consequences of industrial mining. The 1830s to the 1930s saw the rise of large-scale industrial mining in the British imperial world. Elizabeth Carolyn Miller examines how literature of this era reckoned with a new vision of civilization where humans are dependent on finite, nonrenewable stores of earthly resources, and traces how the threatening horizon of resource exhaustion worked its way into narrative form.Britain was the first nation to transition to industry based on fossil fuels, which put its novelists and other writers in the remarkable position of mediating the emergence of extraction-based life. Miller looks at works like Hard Times, The Mill on the Floss, and Sons and Lovers, showing how the provincial realist novel's longstanding reliance on marriage and inheritance plots transforms against the backdrop of exhaustion to withhold the promise of reproductive futurity. She explores how adventure stories like Treasure Island and Heart of Darkness reorient fictional space toward the resource frontier. And she shows how utopian and fantasy works like "Sultana's Dream," The Time Machine, and The Hobbit offer imaginative ways of envisioning energy beyond extractivism.This illuminating book reveals how an era marked by violent mineral resource rushes gave rise to literary forms and genres that extend extractivism as a mode of environmental understanding

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Industrialization in literature. --- Mines and mineral resources in literature. --- English fiction --- History and criticism. --- Mines and mineral resources in literature --- English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism --- English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism --- Industrialization in literature --- Allan Quatermain. --- Arthur Rimbaud. --- Author. --- Barbarism (linguistics). --- Bildungsroman. --- Bloemfontein. --- Boiler. --- Book review. --- British Coal. --- Capitalism. --- Case study. --- Climate change. --- Coal mining. --- Coal. --- Commodity. --- Consolidated Mines. --- Crainquebille. --- D. H. Lawrence. --- Death drive. --- Dividend. --- DuPont. --- Ecocriticism. --- Ecological imperialism. --- Ecology. --- Energy crisis. --- Environmental politics. --- Environmentalism. --- Exhaustion. --- Externality. --- Fertilizer. --- Filth (novel). --- Finance capitalism. --- Fossil fuel. --- Fuel. --- Genre. --- Geologist. --- Geopolitics. --- George Eliot. --- H. G. Wells. --- H. Rider Haggard. --- Hartley Colliery disaster. --- Historical fiction. --- Historicism. --- Imagines (work by Philostratus). --- Imperialism. --- Inception. --- Industrial ecology. --- Industrial society. --- International Commission on Stratigraphy. --- Joseph Conrad. --- King Solomon's Mines. --- Labor theory of value. --- Latin America. --- Lecture. --- Literary realism. --- Literature. --- Lord Jim. --- Marriage plot. --- Medieval literature. --- Memoir. --- Meta-analysis. --- Metallurgy. --- Mineral Revolution. --- Mining (military). --- Mining accident. --- Mining. --- Moidore. --- Montezuma's Daughter. --- Montezuma's treasure. --- Narrative. --- National Policy. --- News from Nowhere. --- Nostromo. --- Ontology. --- Ornithology. --- Ownership (psychology). --- Patriarchy. --- Poetry. --- Slavery. --- Smelting. --- Sons and Lovers. --- Speculative fiction. --- Steam engine. --- Subject (philosophy). --- Subsurface (software). --- Sultana's Dream. --- Surplus value. --- The Bottoms (novel). --- The Coal Question. --- The Mining Journal (trade magazine). --- The Mining Journal. --- Thomas Newcomen. --- Timescape. --- Tono-Bungay. --- Torture chamber. --- V. --- Vril. --- Wealth. --- World War I. --- Worldbuilding.


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The bonds of inequality : debt and the making of the American city
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ISBN: 022672168X 022672154X 9780226721545 Year: 2021 Publisher: Chicago (Ill.): The University of Chicago Press,

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"Cities require infrastructure as they grow and persist; infrastructure requires funding, typically from the bond market. But the bond market is not a neutral player. In this groundbreaking book, Destin Jenkins suggests that questions of urban infrastructure are inherently also questions of justice because infrastructure requires financial mechanisms to come into being. Moreover, these mechanisms abstract cities into investments controlled from afar, which exacerbates local inequalities of race, wealth, and power. Ultimately, Jenkins opens up far larger questions, such as why it is that American social welfare is predicated on the demands of finance capitalism in the first place"--

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Municipal bonds --- Finance, Public --- History --- Cameralistics --- Public finance --- Public finances --- Currency question --- Local government bonds --- Bonds --- Government securities --- Municipal finance --- Debts, Public --- Municipal government --- Equality --- History. --- Economic aspects --- San Francisco (Calif.) --- Egalitarianism --- Inequality --- Social equality --- Social inequality --- Political science --- Sociology --- Democracy --- Liberty --- Cities and towns --- City government --- Municipal administration --- Municipal reform --- Municipalities --- Urban politics --- Local government --- Metropolitan government --- Municipal corporations --- Debts, Government --- Government debts --- National debts --- Public debt --- Public debts --- Sovereign debt --- Debt --- Deficit financing --- Government --- San Francisco County (Calif.) --- San Francisco --- San Francisco City & County (Calif.) --- San Francisco City and County (Calif.) --- City & County of San Francisco (Calif.) --- City and County of San Francisco (Calif.) --- Saint Francisco (Calif.) --- Yerba Buena (Calif.) --- debt, infrastructure, finance, capitalism, racism, democracy, urban politics, African Americans, welfare. --- Municipal bonds - California - San Francisco - History - 20th century --- Finance, Public - California - San Francisco - History - 20th century --- Debts, Public - California - San Francisco - History - 20th century --- Municipal government - California - San Francisco - Finance - History - 20th century --- Equality - Economic aspects - California - San Francisco --- San Francisco (Calif.) - History - 20th century --- San Francisco [California]


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Capitalism : a short history
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ISBN: 069116522X 0691178224 140087341X 1786848252 9781786848253 9781400873418 Year: 2016 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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In this authoritative and accessible book, one of the world's most renowned historians provides a concise and comprehensive history of capitalism within a global perspective from its medieval origins to the 2008 financial crisis and beyond. From early commercial capitalism in the Arab world, China, and Europe, to nineteenth- and twentieth-century industrialization, to today's globalized financial capitalism, Jürgen Kocka offers an unmatched account of capitalism, one that weighs its great achievements against its great costs, crises, and failures. Based on intensive research, the book puts the rise of capitalist economies in social, political, and cultural context, and shows how their current problems and foreseeable future are connected to a long history.Sweeping in scope, the book describes how capitalist expansion was connected to colonialism; how industrialism brought unprecedented innovation, growth, and prosperity but also increasing inequality; and how managerialism, financialization, and globalization later changed the face of capitalism. The book also addresses the idea of capitalism in the work of thinkers such as Marx, Weber, and Schumpeter, and chronicles how criticism of capitalism is as old as capitalism itself, fed by its persistent contradictions and recurrent emergencies.Authoritative and accessible, Capitalism is an enlightening account of a force that has shaped the modern world like few others.

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Economic history. --- Capitalism --- History. --- Accounting. --- Agriculture. --- Artisan. --- Bourgeoisie. --- Calculation. --- Capital market. --- Capital requirement. --- Capitalism. --- Capitalist mode of production (Marxist theory). --- China. --- Commodification. --- Commodity. --- Competition. --- Consumer. --- Creative destruction. --- Criticism of capitalism. --- Criticism. --- Currency. --- Debt. --- Division of labour. --- Economic expansion. --- Economic forces. --- Economic inequality. --- Economic interventionism. --- Economic policy. --- Economic power. --- Economics. --- Economist. --- Economy. --- Employment. --- Entrepreneurship. --- Factory. --- Finance capitalism. --- Financial services. --- Financial transaction. --- Globalization. --- Government debt. --- Great power. --- Hegemony. --- High Middle Ages. --- Imperialism. --- Income. --- Industrialisation. --- Institution. --- Investment fund. --- Joint-stock company. --- Laborer. --- Labour power. --- Manufacturing. --- Market (economics). --- Market economy. --- Market mechanism. --- Marxism. --- Mercantilism. --- Merchant capitalism. --- Merchant. --- Mixed economy. --- Modernity. --- Money changer. --- Moral economy. --- Multinational corporation. --- Multitude. --- North America. --- Ownership. --- Partnership. --- Peasant. --- Plantation economy. --- Politics. --- Precious metal. --- Price mechanism. --- Raw material. --- Rentier capitalism. --- Right to property. --- Rudolf Hilferding. --- Scarcity. --- Serfdom. --- Shareholder. --- Slavery. --- Social order. --- State formation. --- State-owned enterprise. --- Stock exchange. --- Stock market. --- The Communist Manifesto. --- Too big to fail. --- Trade fair. --- Trading company. --- Unfree labour. --- Upper class. --- Vertical integration. --- Wage Labour and Capital. --- Wage. --- War economy. --- War. --- Wealth. --- Welfare. --- Western Europe. --- Workforce. --- World economy.


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Why Minsky matters : an introduction to the work of a maverick economist
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ISBN: 1400873495 9781400873494 Year: 2016 Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press,

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"Why Minsky Matters makes the maverick economist's critically valuable insights accessible to general readers for the first time. L. Randall Wray shows that by understanding Minsky we will not only see the next crisis coming but we might be able to act quickly enough to prevent it. As Wray explains, Minsky's most important idea is that 'stability is destabilizing': to the degree that the economy achieves what looks to be robust and stable growth, it is setting up the conditions in which a crash becomes ever more likely. Before the financial crisis, mainstream economists pointed to much evidence that the economy was more stable, but their predictions were completely wrong because they disregarded Minsky's insight. Wray also introduces Minsky's significant work on money and banking, poverty and unemployment, and the evolution of capitalism, as well as his proposals for reforming the financial system and promoting economic stability. A much-needed introduction to an economist whose ideas are more relevant than ever, Why Minsky Matters is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand why economic crises are becoming more frequent and severe--and what we can do about it"--Publisher's description

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Economics. --- Financial crises. --- Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009. --- Minsky, Hyman P. --- 2008-2009 --- United States. --- Aggregate demand. --- Asset. --- Balance of trade. --- Balance sheet. --- Bank. --- Ben Bernanke. --- Big government. --- Budget. --- Capital asset. --- Capitalism. --- Cash. --- Central bank. --- Commercial bank. --- Community development bank. --- Consumer. --- Consumption (economics). --- Credit risk. --- Creditor. --- Currency. --- Customer. --- Debt deflation. --- Debt. --- Debtor. --- Demand deposit. --- Deposit account. --- Deposit insurance. --- Discount window. --- Economic bubble. --- Economic equilibrium. --- Economic interventionism. --- Economist. --- Economy. --- Employer of last resort. --- Employment. --- Finance capitalism. --- Finance. --- Financial asset. --- Financial crisis of 2007–08. --- Financial crisis. --- Financial fragility. --- Financial institution. --- Financial intermediary. --- Financial services. --- Financialization. --- Fiscal policy. --- Full employment. --- Funding. --- Globalization. --- Goldman Sachs. --- Government budget balance. --- Government debt. --- Great Moderation. --- Household. --- Hyman Minsky. --- Income distribution. --- Income. --- Inflation. --- Insolvency. --- Insurance. --- Interest rate. --- Investment banking. --- Investment goods. --- Investment. --- Investor. --- Keynesian economics. --- Lender of last resort. --- Leverage (finance). --- Leveraged buyout. --- Levy Economics Institute. --- Liability (financial accounting). --- Macroeconomics. --- Margin of safety (financial). --- Market (economics). --- Market liquidity. --- Milton Friedman. --- Monetarism. --- Monetary policy. --- Money management. --- Money market. --- Money supply. --- Mortgage loan. --- Neoclassical economics. --- Net worth. --- Open market operation. --- Paul Krugman. --- Payment. --- Policy. --- Private sector. --- Recession. --- Risk. --- Saving. --- Securitization. --- Shadow banking system. --- Supply (economics). --- Tax. --- Underwriting. --- Unemployment. --- Valuation (finance). --- War on Poverty.

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