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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Riles, Annelise. Collateral knowledge. Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2011 (DLC) 2010036689 (OCoLC)660161979 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Annelise Riles |
ISBN: | 9780226719344 0226719340 1283078449 9781283078443 9786613078445 6613078441 |
OCLC Number: | 717581361 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 295 pages) |
Contents: | What is collateral? -- On legal technique -- The technocratic state -- Unwinding technocracy -- Placeholders : engaging the Hayekian critique of financial regulation -- Virtual transparency -- Conclusion : From design to technique in global financial governance. |
Series Title: | Chicago series in law and society. |
Responsibility: | Annelise Riles. |
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Abstract:
Argues that financial governance is made not just through top-down laws and policies but also through the daily use of mundane legal techniques such as collateral by a variety of secondary agents, from legal technicians and retail investors to financiers and academics and even computerized trading programs.
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"Collateral Knowledge is a complex, clever, stimulating, and ambitious text on an important topic. Annelise Riles upends current debates about regulation and deregulation, private vs. public interest, and financial globalization by calling our attention to the unobtrusive, yet pervasive technical devices that private actors use to do their business. A real blockbuster." (Bruce Carruthers, Northwestern University)" Read more...
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