The Frog Report (Puffin Books)

Benjamin Lee

Children's Books

Puffin Books

Middle Class Problems

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Square Peg

Financial Derivatives and the Globalization of Risk (Public Planet Books)

The market for financial derivatives is far and away the largest and most powerful market in the world, and it is growing exponentially. In 1970 the yearly valuation of financial derivatives was only a few million dollars. By 1980 the sum had swollen to nearly one hundred million dollars. By 1990 it had climbed to almost one hundred billion dollars, and in 2000 it approached one hundred trillion. Created and sustained by a small number of European and American banks, corporations, and hedge funds, the derivatives market has an enormous impact on the economies of nations—particularly poorer nations—because it controls the price of money. Derivatives bought and sold by means of computer keystrokes in London and New York affect the price of food, clothing, and housing in Johannesburg, Kuala Lumpur, and Buenos Aires. Arguing that social theorists concerned with globalization must familiarize themselves with the mechanisms of a world economy based on the rapid circulation of capital, Edward LiPuma and Benjamin Lee offer a concise introduction to financial derivatives.
LiPuma and Lee explain how derivatives are essentially wagers—often on the fluctuations of national currencies—based on models that aggregate and price risk. They describe how these financial instruments are changing the face of capitalism, undermining the power of nations and perpetrating a new and less visible form of domination on postcolonial societies. As they ask: How does one know about, let alone demonstrate against, an unlisted, virtual, offshore corporation that operates in an unregulated electronic space using a secret proprietary trading strategy to buy and sell arcane financial instruments? LiPuma and Lee provide a necessary look at the obscure but consequential role of financial derivatives in the global economy.

Business & Money

Edward LiPuma

Economics

Duke University Press Books

The Hygiene Instructional Manual: The HOW of Infection Control Trainings is a compilation of teacher guidelines, hygiene lessons, hygiene games and activities, printables, worksheets, quizzes, tests, coloring pages and much more. Many government and private organizations specialize in providing the WHAT (providing standards and guidelines) but fail to show HOW. OUTFOX materials are crucial to an effective hygiene and infection control program. The School Edition is the 1st Edition and has received positive reviews from principals, teachers, childcare centers, preschools, home school groups and others in education field. The next edition to be released will be the Medical Edition for infection control professionals, clinics, hospitals, nursing schools, employee orientations, continuing education and so forth.

Hygiene Instructional Manual: The HOW of Infection Control Trainings

Amanda Tolman

Bart Lee

Health, Fitness & Dieting

OUTFOX PREVENTION LLC

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