Codes of Finance: Engineering Derivatives in a Global Bank
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Codes of Finance: Engineering Derivatives in a Global Bank
By (Author) Vincent Antonin Lpinay
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
16th February 2015
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
332.6457
Physical Properties
Paperback
304
Width 146mm, Height 229mm
340g
Description
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 Lepinay, a former employee of one of the world's leading investment banks, takes readers behind the scenes of the equity derivatives
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
Author Bio
Vincent Antonin Lepinay is associate professor in the sociology department at Sciences Po in Paris. He is also head of the Center for Science and Technology Studies at the European University at St. Petersburg. He is the coauthor (with Bruno Latour) of The Science of Passionate Interests.
