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Author: | Maurer, B. |
Title: | Repressed futures: financial derivatives' theological unconscious |
Journal: | Economy and Society
2002 : FEB, VOL. 31:1, p. 15-36 |
Index terms: | Derivative securities Religion Social surveys Social values Statistical methods |
Language: | eng |
Abstract: | Financial derivatives are credited with bringing to the fore a number of sociological and metaphysical problems for modernity, from the instantion of particular modalties of risk to the destabilization of referentiality in knowlwdge-claims about the world. This essay argues that derivatives can take on the particular power they hold in such accounts only through a repression of their mathematical techniques. |
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