Rated Agency: Investee Politics in a Speculative Age

by Michel Feher

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1942130120
• ISBN13: 9781942130123
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Zone Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 7.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher