Digitalized Finance: Financial Capitalism and Informational Revolution

Edemilson Paraná

ISBN 10: 9004352422 / ISBN 13: 9789004352421

Published by Brill, NL, 2018

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In Digitalized Finance, Edemilson Paraná investigates the relationship between the development of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and the process of financialization of economies on a global scale, particularly in Brazil. The book explains the influence of ICT in the emergence and consolidation, especially from the 1980s, of new forms of operation and management of the globalized financial system, highly connected, operated in "real time" with intensive use of technological features, and how these advances are related with the economic and social changes in question. It also describes how contemporary capital markets work, where the search for earnings is leveraged by sophisticated mathematical models, robots and automated trading software that seek financial gains in the milliseconds scale.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Digitalized Finance: Financial Capitalism and Informational Revolution
• Publisher: Brill, NL
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004352422
• ISBN 13: 9789004352421
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: Illustrated.
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 15.88W x 1.91H x 23.5D centimeters 15.88 centimeters width by 1.91 centimeters height by 23.5 centimeters depth
• Weight: 433 grams

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Synopsis

In Digitalized Finance, Edemilson Paraná investigates the relationship between the development of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and the process of financialization of economies on a global scale, particularly in Brazil. The book explains the influence of ICT in the emergence and consolidation, especially from the 1980s, of new forms of operation and management of the globalized financial system, highly connected, operated in “real time” with intensive use of technological features, and how these advances are related with the economic and social changes in question. It also describes how contemporary capital markets work, where the search for earnings is leveraged by sophisticated mathematical models, robots and automated trading software that seek financial gains in the milliseconds scale.

About the Author

Edemilson Paraná, Ph.D. (2018), University of Brasília, is a sociologist. He has published in the areas of Economic Sociology, Political Economy and Social Theory.