Collateral knowledge : legal reasoning in the global financial markets / Annelise Riles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Riles, Annelise.

Series:

Chicago series in law and society.

The Chicago series in law and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Security (Law).

Derivative securities--Law and legislation.

Derivative securities.

Over-the-counter markets--Law and legislation.

Over-the-counter markets.

Financial risk management.

Derivative securities--Japan.

Over-the-counter markets--Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Who are the agents of financial regulation? Is good (or bad) financial governance merely the work of legislators and regulators? Here Annelise Riles 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. Drawing upon her ten years of ethnographic fieldwork in the Japanese derivatives market, Riles explore

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Private Governance, Global Markets, and the Legal Technologies of Collateral

Chapter 1. What Is Collateral? On Legal Technique

Chapter 2. The Technocratic State

Chapter 3. Unwinding Technocracy

Chapter 4. Placeholders: Engaging the Hayekian Critique of Financial Regulation

Chapter 5. Virtual Transparency

Conclusion: From Design to Technique in Global Financial Governance

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786613078445

9781283078443

1283078449

9780226719344

0226719340

OCLC:

714569512