The Politics of Property: Labor, Freedom, and Belonging

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This book offers a theory of property that takes into account current debates about gender, slavery, and colonialism. It introduces property as a contested concept and explores how that contestability is played out in political debates between thinkers, across ideologies, and in political practice. Analyzing the key debates, Brace illustrates how private property has been caught up with ideas of labor, freedom, and belonging and has informed the development of liberalism, socialism, and conservatism as well as the construction of class, gender, and race. While examining the works of Locke, Winstanley, Godwin, Bentham, Hegel, and Marx, this book focuses on the idea of property as a site of struggle and as a means of connecting individuals to civil society and the state. It offers valuable insights into the ways in which ideas about property influence political ideologies, thought, and practice.

The Politics of Property: Labor, Freedom, and Belonging

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The Politics of Property: Labor, Freedom, and Belonging
Laura Brace
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Lessons from the leading financial consulting firm
What is good financial service? Being knowledgeable. Keeping in touch. Knowing your client's needs. For the past twenty-five years, senior executives of professional financial services firms have relied on the experience of Greenwich Associates in establishing their strategy to attract and keep a committed client base-the core of financial services consulting. Based on work they have done at virtually all of the world's leading professional financial services organization, this book shares the techniques developed and lessons learned in the Greenwich Associates' proprietary research and experience consulting for over a quarter of a century.

Driving Strategic Change in Financial Services

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Driving Strategic Change in Financial Services

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ASIN: 0849317355

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Financial services businesses are leading the way towards the global economy, yet they are in a state of turbulence. Where financial services are today, other industries such as electronics, computers, telecommunications, and air transport will be in the near future. This book describes why this is happening and how companies are tackling the challenge of this volatile environment. The first part describes the causes of this volatility through new government regulations, shifts in customer behavior, the impact of new technology, and more aggressive global competition. The second part of the book contains case study material from international companies including managing the portfolio of a global financial services organization and corporate development for an international bank. Driving Strategic Change in Financial Services is an essential tool for understanding the global climate in financial services and for mastering the task of developing an international company. Executives, policy-makers, and managers in banking and other markets such as electronic commerce will find valuable insights and useful case material. Features

Financial Derivatives and the Globalization of Risk (Public Planet)

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Very fine book on the dynamics of modern capital
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Financial Derivatives and the Globalization of Risk (Public Planet)
Edward LiPuma , and Edward LiPuma
Manufacturer: Duke University Press
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ASIN: 0822334186

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The market for financial derivatives is far and away the largest and most powerful market in the world, and it is growing exponentially. In 1970 the yearly valuation of financial derivatives was only a few million dollars. By 1980 the sum had swollen to nearly one hundred million dollars. By 1990 it had climbed to almost one hundred billion dollars, and in 2000 it approached one hundred trillion. Created and sustained by a small number of European and American banks, corporations, and hedge funds, the derivatives market has an enormous impact on the economies of nations—particularly poorer nations—because it controls the price of money. Derivatives bought and sold by means of computer keystrokes in London and New York affect the price of food, clothing, and housing in Johannesburg, Kuala Lumpur, and Buenos Aires. Arguing that social theorists concerned with globalization must familiarize themselves with the mechanisms of a world economy based on the rapid circulation of capital, Edward LiPuma and Benjamin Lee offer a concise introduction to financial derivatives.

LiPuma and Lee explain how derivatives are essentially wagers—often on the fluctuations of national currencies—based on models that aggregate and price risk. They describe how these financial instruments are changing the face of capitalism, undermining the power of nations and perpetrating a new and less visible form of domination on postcolonial societies. As they ask: How does one know about, let alone demonstrate against, an unlisted, virtual, offshore corporation that operates in an unregulated electronic space using a secret proprietary trading strategy to buy and sell arcane financial instruments? LiPuma and Lee provide a necessary look at the obscure but consequential role of financial derivatives in the global economy.

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Very fine book on the dynamics of modern capital.......2006-08-25

A very well written work. I wanted to learn about markets, invested a few hours in reading this book and learned everything from "what is a derivative, really?" to "what does that mean, really?" I'm lucky to have found this book when I did.

I also like the texture of the book - the paper is unusually smooth.

Painful reading........2006-07-14

If you want to learn about derivatives and their influence on the economy, the banking system and society in general: don't buy this book.

This book was written by two anthropologists and you have to be an academic yourself to understand what they are saying. However, even if you understand these people the book has little value, because the authors just ventilate opinions with virtually no facts to back them up. There are very, very few references. There is no single graph, illustration, table or bullet list.

The book does give some (unsupported) useful insights. However, you can also get those by just searching the Internet, in that case you do not have to work through 200 pages of painful reading.

It is sad that this book is of such a poor quality. Derivatives do a form a danger to the current financial system. Ordinary people are also at risk, because of fiat money and of fractional reserve banking. Fiat money has no intrinsic value, the value depends on how others value it. Fractional reserve banking means that the bank does not hold your deposit (savings) for safekeeping. They just use it for making loans. If the bank goes bankrupt you loose your deposit.

Adapting to Financial Globalisation (Routledge Studies in Money and Banking)

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Adapting to Financial Globalisation (Routledge Studies in Money and Banking)
Morten Balling
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Based on a colloquium held by SUERF jointly with the Austrian National Bank, this book addresses the issue of adapting to the demands of financial globalisation, a pressing preoccupation of bankers financial institutions and financial authorities.

Brookings-Wharton Papers on Financial Services: 2000

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Brookings-Wharton Papers on Financial Services: 2000

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The advancement toward a global financial market is examined in this third in a series of annual volumes on the financial services industry from the Brookings Institution and the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

Financial Services, Globalization and Domestic Policy Change (International Political Economy Series)

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Financial Services, Globalization and Domestic Policy Change (International Political Economy Series)
William D. Coleman , and D. William Coleman
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Global Financial Governance and the Problem of Inclusion.: An article from: Global Governance

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Global Financial Governance and the Problem of Inclusion.: An article from: Global Governance
Randall D. Germain
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This digital document is an article from Global Governance, published by Lynne Rienner Publishers on October 1, 2001. The length of the article is 6652 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Global Financial Governance and the Problem of Inclusion.
Author: Randall D. Germain
Publication: Global Governance (Refereed)
Date: October 1, 2001
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Volume: 7 Issue: 4 Page: 411(16)

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Globalisation and Financial Service Sector

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Globalisation and Financial Service Sector
G.S. Batra , and R.C. Dangwal
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Globalization and Sustainable Development: Opportunities and Challenges for the Financial Services Sector

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Globalization and Sustainable Development: Opportunities and Challenges for the Financial Services Sector

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The Globalization of Financial Services (Globalization of the World Economy)

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The Globalization of Financial Services (Globalization of the World Economy)

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Banking, foreign exchange, bonds, equities and insurance services are now provided through an increasingly global marketplace. In financial services, as in other activities, globalization can be seen as a process opening up national economies and markets, widening the extent and form of cross-border transactions, deepening the international character of productive activity. As such, globalization is propelled by liberalization of trade and deregulation of capital markets, underpinned by technological change which is lowering communication and transport costs and enhancing the international tradability of services.

This volume brings together a range of articles examining the nature of globalization in financial services and the implications of the internationalization process for financial and regulatory policies. Contributions range from early analyses by Milton Friedman of the Eurodollar market, Harry Johnson of regional financial centers and Herbert Grubel of multinational banking to more recent studies examining the stock market crash of 1987, the globalization of payment systems and the financial collapse of BCCI and Barings.

The 38 articles are divided into six sections covering trade in financial services, multinational banking, Eurocurrency banking, offshore services, exchange and securities and regulatory issues.

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Even job loss has a silver lining

A truly wonderful book! Through stories, myths and metaphors, Mary Lynn Pulley examines the factors which help people develop more meaning in their work and their lives. This book is not only for those going through career transitions, but for all of us who want to be more resilient in today's work world.
-- Betsy A. Collard, Career Action Center

Right-sizing. Reengineering. Organizational restructuring. No matter the corporate euphemism in which it's couched, the loss of a job remains one of the most devastating events a person can encounter. But some are finding it to be a blessing in disguise. In Losing Your Job, Reclaiming Your Soul, Mary Lynn Pulley presents a positive, practical and empowering new model of career resilience for everyone who has lost, fears losing, or is thinking of leaving his or her job. Here are the results of dozens of interviews with high-performing professionals who bounced back from the trauma of involuntary job loss. Their stories provide powerful, real-world lessons in flexibility, determination and fulfillment. It 's a book that puts the prospect of job loss in meaningful perspective, and gives us insight into how to turn one of life's most catastrophic experiences into a wellspring of personal and professional reawakening.

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A truly Inspirational Book - Read it!.......2003-01-07

If you have lost your job involuntarily, think you may be on the bubble or are just questioning your whole approach and understanding of the work-a-day world, you should read this book! I lost my job in August of 2002 after returning from a very successful 3-year assignment in London. I was devastated, how could I be treated this way. I thought if you showed up and did a great job, you were in for life. Boy was I wrong! I came across this book recommended by an author of a paperback called The Lay-Off Survival Guide.

I won't say this book changed my life (I am not sure a book can really do that) but it certainly changed the way I think about work and my own skills - forever! I realized that there are lots of people out there struggling with the same issues and lots of people going through their daily routines and feeling unfulfilled. I also realized that I had the power to change that about my life.

I find Mrs. Pulley's balance of personal interviews and research as well as reference work of other authors, psychologists, and philosophers to lend credibility, believability and inspiration to this book.

When someone asks you, "so, who are you?" and your answer starts with "I'm a manager of... or I work for..." then YOU NEED TO READ THIS BOOK!

I have now left big corporate America and am working in a 3-person start-up software company. I don't think I could ever go back to the other life. Thank you Mary Lynn Pulley for helping me transform!

Building Personal Resilience.......2001-02-26

Ms. Pulley has written a very useful treatise on resilience in the context of the workplace. She very succintly brings out the feelings and emotions that a person who has lost his/her job involuntarily feels and experiences. Her ideas and thoughts based on her interviews with people who have gone through the "trough" would make an invaluable contribution to those who are on their path to recovery and more importantly success on their terms. Though the book is written based on the American experience, I am of the opinion that it is applicable anywhere in the world. For those who live under the threat of likely loss of their job involuntarily, this book would be useful in understanding the feelings that you may be encountering.This book could even be a road-map to move-on and re-define yourself, discover a new dimension of success and of course, get on with re-building and living a more meaningful life in which you will find satisfaction and happiness in.

Outstanding self-help book for career transitions.......1998-11-14

I picked up this book with some skepticism after losing a job, but found that I could not put it down! And after finishing it, I went out and got a temp job in ONE DAY which I still have -- and have been asked to stay on. It is excellent as practical as well as philosophical support for anyone seeking to improve his or her resilience in a crisis. Instead of despair Pulley and Deal offer hope.

I liked the REAL LIFE stories in this book !.......1998-01-28

There are not many books that I stay up until 2:00am reading, but this is one of them. I was laid of, from a merger/aquisition, after working for the "company" for 10 years. I felt betrayed, I had no loyalty, and I was depressed ! Finding my resilance and takeing the "lessons" from each of the chapters got me through a tough time in my life. The bibliography was accurate and easy to follow. I even learned that "Pandora's Box did not release "HOPE"" from all the evils in the in famous Pandoras' box. One last not I also bought audio cassette of Sara Hickman's "Necessary Angels" when I had no income... not a wise decision you might say ?....wrong Ed Mc Mann....This was one of the best purchases I made when I needed a lift in my sprirts....what am I doing today.... I have started a new home based business, from my skills and past experiences. I may go back to "work" if the right "offer" come to me. I have also gotten involved in a small business group at my church....(sprituality).... I would rate this book right up there with WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE for people who have had an "involuntary job loss". I have also read William Bridges books on transitions which is also referenced in this book !

Timely, positive, and very helpful.......1998-01-24

In the past few years I've had a series of what I considered negative career experiences. I started out many years ago to be a teacher, but (due to an impossible job market) made a lateral move into a business career in which I'm using the same skills. But I kept on teaching part-time because I felt that was what I "should" be doing. Then I had a series of Classes From Hell that left me psychologically bruised and burned out, and finally, feeling utterly defeated, I quit teaching. A short time later, after years of working as an independent contractor, I took a "permanent" job that turned out to be a serious mistake: it was demanding but narrow in scope, so I was exhausted and bored at the same time; I did a mediocre job and eventually was laid off. I picked up Pulley's book just when I was in my worst "I'm a failure at everything" depressed state. It helped me realize that, on some level, I knew better all along: I went into teaching because of family expectations, and although I'm moderately good at it I was always uncomfortable as a teacher. Likewise, I felt I shouldn't turn down a permanent job because it was "secure" (the Depression-era mentality of my parents!), and, although it was patently wrong for me, I was afraid to quit for the same reason. The collapse of both jobs caused me to question all these assumptions. And Pulley's book helped me to realize that this FREED me to consider what I really wanted to do and what was most important to me in life. A very helpful book for anyone who has been laid off, or who feels he/she might be.

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