Derivatives and development : a political economy of global finance, farming, and poverty

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Title:

Derivatives and development : a political economy of global finance, farming, and poverty

Personal Author:

Breger Bush, Sasha

Publication Information:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Physical Description:

244 p. ; 23 cm.

ISBN:

9780230338920

Subject Term:

Derivative securities -- Developing countries.

Finance -- Developing countries.

International finance.

Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries

Economic development -- Developing countries.

Geographic Term:

Developing countries -- Commerce.

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Summary

Summary

Breger Bush argues that derivatives markets work in the development context as engines of inequality and instability, aggravating poverty among those they are purported to help and highlighting some of the dangers of neoliberal globalization for the poor.

Author Notes

SASHA BREGER BUSH is a lecturer at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver, USA.