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PublisherZONE Books

ISBN-101942130120

ISBN-139781942130123

eBay Product ID (ePID)240692343

Product Key Features

Number of Pages192 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameRated Agency : Investee Politics in a Speculative Age

SubjectBusiness Ethics, Political Economy, Sociology / General, Finance / General, General, Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism

Publication Year2018

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPolitical Science, Social Science, Business & Economics

AuthorMichel Feher

SeriesNear Future Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight14.7 Oz

Item Length8.1 in

Item Width6.4 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2018-015515

SynopsisThe extraordinary shift in conduct and orientation-among companies, governments, and individuals-generated by financialization., The hegemony of finance compels a new orientation for everyone and everything: companies care more about the moods of their shareholders than about longstanding commercial success; governments subordinate citizen welfare to appeasing creditors; and individuals are concerned less with immediate income from labor than appreciation of their capital goods, skills, connections, and reputations. That firms, states, and people depend more on their ratings than on the product of their activities also changes how capitalism is resisted. For activists, the focus of grievances shifts from the extraction of profit to the conditions under which financial institutions allocate credit. While the exploitation of employees by their employers has hardly been curbed, the power of investors to select investees -- to decide who and what is deemed creditworthy -- has become a new site of social struggle. In clear and compelling prose, Michel Feher explains the extraordinary shift in conduct and orientation generated by financialization. Above all, he articulates the new political resistances and aspirations that investees draw from their rated agency., The extraordinary shift in conduct and orientation-among companies, governments, and individuals-generated by financialization.The hegemony of finance compels a new orientation for everyone and everything: companies care more about the moods of their shareholders than about longstanding commercial success; governments subordinate citizen welfare to appeasing creditors; and individuals are concerned less with immediate income from labor than with appreciation of their capital goods, skills, connections, and reputations. In this book, in clear and compelling prose, Michel Feher explains the extraordinary shift in conduct and orientation generated by financialization.That firms, states, and people depend more on their ratings than on the product of their activities also changes how capitalism is resisted. For activists, the focus of grievances shifts from the extraction of profit to the conditions under which financial institutions allocate credit. While the exploitation of employees by their employers has hardly been curbed, the power of investors to select investees-to decide who and what is deemed creditworthy-has become a new site of social struggle. Above all, Feher articulates the new political resistances and aspirations that investees draw from their rated agency., The extraordinary shift in conduct and orientation--among companies, governments, and individuals--generated by financialization. The hegemony of finance compels a new orientation for everyone and everything: companies care more about the moods of their shareholders than about longstanding commercial success; governments subordinate citizen welfare to appeasing creditors; and individuals are concerned less with immediate income from labor than with appreciation of their capital goods, skills, connections, and reputations. In this book, in clear and compelling prose, Michel Feher explains the extraordinary shift in conduct and orientation generated by financialization. That firms, states, and people depend more on their ratings than on the product of their activities also changes how capitalism is resisted. For activists, the focus of grievances shifts from the extraction of profit to the conditions under which financial institutions allocate credit. While the exploitation of employees by their employers has hardly been curbed, the power of investors to select investees--to decide who and what is deemed creditworthy--has become a new site of social struggle. Above all, Feher articulates the new political resistances and aspirations that investees draw from their rated agency.

LC Classification NumberHG101.F4413 2018