1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910792656903321

Autore

Shonkwiler Alison

Titolo

The Financial Imaginary [[electronic resource] ] : Economic Mystification and the Limits of Realist Fiction / / Alison Shonkwiler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minnesota ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-4529-5392-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (200 pages)

Disciplina

813.009/3553

Soggetti

Economics and literature - United States - History - 20th century

Capitalism and literature - United States - History - 20th century

Realism in literature

Finance in literature

Money in literature

American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Representing financial abstraction in fiction -- Virtue unrewarded: financial character in the economic novel -- Reagonomic realisms: real estate, character, and crisis in Jane Smiley's Good faith -- Epic compensations: corporate totality in Frank Norris's The octopus and Richard Powers's Gain -- Financial sublime: virtual capitalism in Don DeLillo's Cosmopolis -- Liquid realisms: global asymmetry and mediation in Teddy Wayne's Kapitoil and Mohsin Hamid's How to get filthy rich in raising Asia -- Epilogue: Literary realism and finance capital.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910219984403321

Autore

Chalk Peter

Titolo

Countering piracy in the modern era : notes from a RAND workshop to discuss the best approaches for dealing with piracy in the 21st century / / Peter Chalk, Laurence Smallman, Nicholas Burger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Santa Monica, CA, : RAND, 2009

ISBN

1-282-39863-6

9786612398636

0-8330-4904-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (23 p.)

Collana

Conference proceedings

Altri autori (Persone)

SmallmanLaurence

BurgerNicholas

Disciplina

364.16/4

Soggetti

Piracy - Prevention

Shipping - Security measures

Merchant marine - Security measures

Piracy - Economic aspects

Piracy - Aden, Gulf of

Aden, Gulf of Navigation Safety measures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense."

"RAND National Defense Research Institute."

"CF-269-OSD"--P. [4] of cover.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Countering piracy in the modern era : notes from a RAND workshop to discuss the best approaches for dealing with piracy in the 21st century -- The current legal framework for countering piracy -- The economic burden imposed by piracy -- Anti-piracy off the Horn of Africa and the opportunities for interstate collaboration -- The wisdom of using armed contractors to protect shipping in the Gulf of Aden -- The extent to which industry talks as single voice in terms of maritime security -- How to confront piracy off the Horn of Africa.

Sommario/riassunto

In March 2009, the RAND Corporation convened a small group of experts from the U.S. government, allied partner nations, the maritime industry, and academic organizations to discuss piracy in the modern



era. Participants concluded that mitigating the complex nature of maritime crime requires the input of all stakeholders--state, national, private, and nongovernmental--and must embrace measures beyond the reactive deployment of naval assets.