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UNINA9910792656903321 |
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Shonkwiler Alison |
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The Financial Imaginary [[electronic resource] ] : Economic Mystification and the Limits of Realist Fiction / / Alison Shonkwiler |
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Minneapolis, Minnesota ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2017 |
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©2017 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (200 pages) |
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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. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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. |
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UNINA9910219984403321 |
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Autore |
Chalk Peter |
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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 |
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Santa Monica, CA, : RAND, 2009 |
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1-282-39863-6 |
9786612398636 |
0-8330-4904-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (23 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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SmallmanLaurence |
BurgerNicholas |
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Piracy - Prevention |
Shipping - Security measures |
Merchant marine - Security measures |
Piracy - Economic aspects |
Piracy - Aden, Gulf of |
Aden, Gulf of Navigation Safety measures |
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Materiale a stampa |
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"Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense." |
"RAND National Defense Research Institute." |
"CF-269-OSD"--P. [4] of cover. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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