Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Global Flows and the Politics of Circulation -- 2 Derivatives, Risk, and Speculative Capital -- 3 Historical Conjunctures -- 4 The Institutional Basis of Derivatives -- 5 Deriving the Derivative -- 6 The World of Risk -- 7 Derivatives and the Stability of...

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