Future of Futures

Elena Esposito, Bielefeld University, Italy

• Contents: Foreword by Bob Jessop Introduction Part I: The Time of Money 1. Time in Economics 2. Time Binding 3. Economy is Time: Needs and Scarcity 4. Money 5. The Market 6. Financial Markets Part II: The Time of Finance 7. Paper Finance and the Relationship to the World 8. Derivatives 9. The Production of the Future 10. Trading Uncertainty Part III: The Time of the Crisis 11. The Crisis – Presuppositions 12. The Crisis – Evolution 13. The Crisis – Regulation References Index

‘The Future of Futures is an innovative and timely book, an excellent and accessible introduction. Readers would be well advised to put their intellectual certainties at risk by engaging with it, observe their reactions to its insights, paradoxes and analyses, learn from its challenging, paradigm-busting arguments, and contribute thereby to the development of science and the critique of economics.’