Arbitraging Japan : dreams of capitalism at the end of finance / Hirokazu Miyazaki.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miyazaki, Hirokazu.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stockbrokers--Japan--Case studies.

Stockbrokers.

Investment analysis--Japan--Case studies.

Investment analysis.

Arbitrage--Japan--Case studies.

Arbitrage.

Finance--Japan--Case studies.

Finance.

Japan.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xii, 199 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013]

Summary:

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 1990s and 2000s. Book jacket.

Contents:

Shakespearean arbitrage

Between arbitrage and speculation

Trading on the limits of learning

Economy of dreams

The last dream

From arbitrage to the gift.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780520273474

0520273478

9780520273481

0520273486

OCLC:

788263904