Extreme money the masters of the universe and the cult of risk
The human race created money and finance. But our inventions re-create us. Mankind mistook moneya lubricant of society and human well-beingfor an end in itself. Finance, the monetary shadow of real things, came to dominate human reality. Extreme Money tells the story of how this happenedand, in s...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Harlow, England ; New York, New York :
Pearson Financial Times/Prentice Hall
[2011]
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| Edición: | 1st edition |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009628523906719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Praise for Extreme Money
- Extreme Money
- Contents
- Figures and tables
- Prologue: Hubris
- Sub-prime dialects
- Best in show
- The Physical Impossibility of Death in theMind of Someone Living
- Retreat
- Swiss inquisitions
- Idea of an investment
- Ambush
- Mega presentations
- Fording streams
- Liquidity and leverage
- Democracy of greed
- Pick and pay
- Black Sea real estate
- Life on the margin
- Racing days
- Dr Doom
- Extreme money
- Part 1: Faith
- Mirror of the times
- Some kinda money
- Trading places
- The invention of money
- Barbarous relic
- The real thing
- The Hotel New Hampshire
- Collapse
- Money machines
- Debt clock
- Money is nothing
- The mirrored room
- Money changes everything
- Mrs Watanabe goes to Wall Street
- FX Beauties Club
- Plutonomy
- Trickling down, trading up
- I shop, therefore I must be!
- Spend it like Beckham!
- Golden years
- Tax avoidance
- Japanese curse
- The god of our time
- Business of business
- Limited consciences
- A brilliant daring speculation
- Dirty tricks
- Marriages and separations
- The house that Jack built
- Capital ideas
- WWJD - watch what Jack did!
- Business dealings
- Money for sale
- It's a wonderful bank!
- Pass the parcel
- Loan frenzy
- Plastic fantastic money
- Casino banking
- Confidence tricks
- The Citi of money
- Sign of the times
- Yellow brick road
- Monumental money
- The battle of the 'pond'
- Cool Britannia
- Barbarian invasions
- Unlikely centres
- El-Dollardo economics
- The unbalanced bicycle
- Foreign treasure
- Fool's gold
- Liquidity vortex
- Money honey
- Printing it
- Column inches
- Video money
- Studs, starlets
- Financial porn
- Speedy money
- Literary money
- Money for all
- Part 2: Fundamentalism
- Los Cee-Ca-Go boys
- Dismal science
- Chicago Interpretation.
- Economic politics
- Academic warfare
- The Gipper and the Iron Lady
- Political economy
- New old deal
- The monetary lens
- Unstable stability?
- False gods, fake prophecies
- Mystery of price
- Demon of chance
- Corporate M&Ms
- Risk taming
- Slow and quick money
- Corporate practice
- Everything is just noise
- Perfect worlds
- Financial fundamentalism
- Fata morgana
- Part 3: Alchemy
- Learning to love debt
- Fixed floor coverings
- By the bootstraps
- Leverage for everything
- Cutting to the bone
- Professor Jensen goes to Wall Street
- Drowning by numbers
- Censored loans
- High opportunity bonds
- Fallen angels
- Junk people
- Milken's mobsters
- The sweet envy of bankers
- Thank you for borrowing
- One bridge too far
- National treasure
- Private vices
- Excess returns
- Sexy private equity
- Inflight entertainment
- Selling the family silver
- Holey dollar
- Money for nothing
- Public squalor, private profits
- Locust plagues
- Vain capital
- Amateur hour
- Turbulence
- Dice with debt
- Securitisation recipes
- Slice and dice
- Almost as safe as houses
- Synthetic stuff
- Get copula-ed
- Sticky mess
- Several houses of one's own
- Cheaper cuts of mortgage
- ARMs race
- Heroes for one day
- The doomsday debt machine
- Alpha-debt soup
- In the shadow of debt
- Virtual loans
- Counting on the abacus
- Intellectual masturbation
- Used to be smart
- Chain reaction
- Phase transition
- Terra incognita
- Risk supermarkets
- Mind your derivatives
- Particle finance
- Hedging your bets
- Sewer bonds
- Harvard case studies
- The Italian job
- Betting your hedge
- TARDIS trades
- I will kill you later
- First to lose
- Toxic municipal siblings
- Playing swaps and robbers
- The Greek job
- Madman's games
- Financial arms race
- Shock-Gen
- Evil Kerviel
- Soldier monks.
- Mystère Kerviel
- Risk is our business
- Free money
- Credit's fatal attraction
- Post-modern contradictions
- Derivative deconstruction
- Piñata parties
- Woodstock for hedge funds
- Keeping up with the Joneses
- In search of Moby Dick
- Style gurus
- Magic wand
- Lucky man
- Sharpe practice
- Embedded
- In the long run, we are all dead
- The game
- The more things change
- Hedgestock
- Minsky machines
- Affinities and curses
- Crowded hours
- Crime without punishment
- Fast cars, slow hedge funds
- Fast cornering
- Children of privilege
- Make money not war
- Part 4: Oligarchy
- War games
- Borrowed times
- Liquidity factory
- Six degrees of separation
- Paper chains
- Toxic pathologies
- Relying on the Zohar
- Blind capital
- Rent collectors
- Best in best possible world
- Shell games
- Central bank republics
- Games of old maid
- Protection rackets
- Stockholm Syndrome
- Free speech
- No accounting for values
- Mark to make believe
- Out of sight
- Creeping crumble
- Management by neglect
- Directing traffic
- Cult of risk
- Growth for all seasons
- Financial groupthink
- Celebrity central banking
- Dealing with dissent
- Noneofuscouldanode
- Je ne regrette rien!
- Last supper
- Masters of the Universe
- Money illusions
- Factories for unhappy people
- War versus money
- Shop floors
- Misinformed
- Smiling and killing
- Pay grades
- Much more than this
- Attached
- Bonus season
- Plenty
- Tipping points
- Financial nihilism
- Cosmetic consumption
- The physical impossibility of spending the amount earned by someone living
- Celebrity finance
- Manqué not monkey
- Wizard and muggles
- In the midnight hour
- Last rites
- Safe as
- Snuff movies
- Silent mass murder
- Part 5: Cracks
- Financial gravity
- Air pockets
- Mass extinction
- ER
- This is not a seminar!.
- ICU
- Country for sale
- Crying games
- Newtonian economics
- Unusually uncertain
- Botox economics
- China syndrome
- Regulatory dialectic
- Patient zero
- Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide
- Built to fail
- End of Ponzi prosperity?
- Losing the commanding heights
- Zen finance
- Unknown unknowns
- Epilogue: Nemesis
- Marginal
- Widows and orphans
- Nausea
- Crunch porn, crash lit
- Economic rock stars
- Showtime
- Meta money
- Economic trivialities
- This time, it is no different!
- Suicide is painless
- The turning world
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index.
