Rated Agency (eBook)

Investee Politics in a Speculative Age

Michel Feher (Autor)

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2021
Zone Books (Verlag)
978-1-942130-19-2 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.9.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Near Futures
• Reihe/Serie: Near Future Series
• Reihe/Serie: Near Future Series
• Übersetzer: Gregory Elliott
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Wirtschaft
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Planung / Organisation
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
• Schlagworte: activism • Asset Management • Bond (finance) • Book • Budget • Capital Accumulation • Capital Gain • Capitalism • Capital Market • Chicago school of economics • civil service • class consciousness • Commodity • Competition • competitiveness • consumer • Corporate Governance • Corporate Social Responsibility • Cost–benefit analysis • Creditor • credit risk • Customer • debt • Debtor • Deregulation • Economic Growth • Economics • economist • economy • Employment • Empowerment • Entrepreneurship • Expense • Financial Capital • Financial Crisis • Financial Engineering • Financial institution • financialization • Financial Services • financier • Fordism • Globalization • Governance • government agency • Government Debt • hegemony • Human Capital • income • Inflation • Institution • institutional investor • Investor • Keynesian Economics • Labour movement • Labour Power • law and economics • Legislation • Management • market liquidity • Market Value • Milton Friedman • Mines ParisTech • monetary policy • Neoliberalism • Pension • Political Campaign • Politician • popular sovereignty • Populism • private sector • Profit (economics) • public administration • Public Policy • public utility • purchasing power • Regulation • Regulation school • salary • saving • Securitization • Shareholder • Shareholder Value • social conflict • Social Contract • Social Democracy • Social Movement • Social protection • Social Responsibility • Stock Market • Supporter • surplus value • Tax • Tax Cut • Taxpayer • Theory of the Firm • Trade Union • vertical integration • wage • welfare • Welfare State
• ISBN-10: 1-942130-19-8 / 1942130198
• ISBN-13: 978-1-942130-19-2 / 9781942130192