Confidence Games
Money and Markets in a World without Redemption
416 pages, 22 halftones, 14 line drawings, 2 tables 5-3/4 x 8-3/4
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2004, 2007
Series: Religion and Postmodernism Series
Cloth $32.50
ISBN: 9780226791661
Published October 2004
Paper $24.00
ISBN: 9780226791685
Published May 2008
Related links: See Taylor's timeline of emerging network culture.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Paper Trails
Counterfeit Detectors
Displacements
Currency of Art
Games and Play
2. Marketing Providence
"Holy Shit!"
Market Makers
Invisible Hand
3. Figuring Capital
Artistic Absolute
Economic Absolute
Art of Finance
4. Money Matters
Losing Weight
Going Private
5. Specters of Capital
Networking the Economy
Creation ex Nihilo
Collateral Damage
6. Yahoo Nation
From Las Vegas to Times Square
Finance-Entertainment Complex
Com Games
7. Difference Engines
From Wall Street to Las Vegas
Balancing the Books
Random Walks
8. In-Securities
Unbalancing the Books
Complexity and Contradictions in Markets
9. Rustling Religion
Return of the Repressed
Three Types of Theology of Culture
New Realities
Notes
Index
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