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Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The Ontology of Derivatives: What Are They? What Are They Not?
2. The General Appearance of Specific Circuits of Capital: The Institutions, Prices and Risks behind Arrangements in the Derivatives Sub-System
3. The Second Layer of the Surface: The Nature of Risks Under Financialised Capitalism and the Real Functions of Derivatives
4. The True Short of It, or Finance Capital Unleashed: The Recent Evolution of Derivatives Markets
5. The False Long of It: Economic and Financial History, Phases of Capitalism and the Pseudo-Genesis of Derivatives
6. The Phenomenology of It: The Intellectual Reflections Upon Modern Arrangements and Contemporary Derivatives
7. In Defence of Contemporary Derivatives: The Advocacy of Risk Management for Capital and Beyond
8. Trial by its Financialised Essence: Derivatives Guilty of Speculation, Instability, and Debacles
9. Financialised Capitalism and the State: Deregulating Finance, Regulating Derivatives?
10. The Radical Political Economics of Derivatives: A Heterodox Interpretation
Conclusion
Index
Biography
Marcelo Milan holds a B.A. and a M.A. in Economics, both from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. He has a Ph.D. in Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst. He taught Economics at the Universities of Rhode Island (South Kingston), of Wisconsin (Parkisde), and in the department of economics and international relations at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, where he is an associate professor. He is currently a visiting scholar at the Federal University of ABC, Brazil. His research interests include macroeconomics, money, finance, radical political economics, international political economy, the Brazilian economy, and the cultural and creative economy.
