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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786346903321

Autore

Miyazaki Hirokazu

Titolo

Arbitraging Japan [[electronic resource] ] : dreams of capitalism at the end of finance / / Hirokazu Miyazaki

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2013

ISBN

1-283-80429-8

0-520-95395-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (212 p.)

Disciplina

332.60952

Soggetti

Stockbrokers - Japan

Investment analysis - Japan

Arbitrage - Japan

Finance - Japan

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Shakespearean arbitrage -- Between arbitrage and speculation -- Trading on the limits of learning -- Economy of dreams -- The last dream -- From arbitrage to the gift.

Sommario/riassunto

For many financial market professionals worldwide, the era of high finance is over. The times in which bankers and financiers were the primary movers and shakers of both economy and society have come to an abrupt halt. What has this shift meant for the future of capitalism? What has it meant for the future of the financial industry? What about the lives and careers of financial operators who were once driven by utopian visions of economic, social, and personal transformation? And what does it mean for critics of capitalism who have long predicted the end of financial institutions? Hirokazu Miyazaki answers these questions through a close examination of the careers and intellectual trajectories of a group of pioneering derivatives traders in Japan during the 1990's and 2000's.