May 5, 2011
by Annelise Riles
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On Monday I gave a public lecture at Wesleyan University about Collateral Knowledge. The audience was mainly humanists and critical theorists and the presentation was geared toward what the book might have to say to those audiences rather than to … Continue reading
May 1, 2011
by Annelise Riles
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Last week we convened another meeting of our working group of economists, anthropologists, lawyers, psychologists and policy makers interested in how our disciplines could work together in new ways to solve market problems. It is a very smart, high-powered group … Continue reading
April 28, 2011
by Annelise Riles
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Yesterday the Cornell Book Store organized a book signing for Collateral Knowkedge. I talked about some of the themes in the book and then we had a great discussion. What made it so fun was the mix of disciplines represented … Continue reading
April 27, 2011
by Annelise Riles
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Today the Cornell Law School organized a celebration of the publication of Collateral Knowledge. The event, attended by about 80 faculty and students from across the campus, featured presentations by Tom Baker, Deputy Dean and William Maul Measey Professor of … Continue reading
April 22, 2011
by Annelise Riles
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Collateral Knowledge is now in print and available at amazon and other book retailers. If you are in the Ithaca NY area, the Cornell Book Store is organizing a friendly little book signing event on April 27 at 4:30 pm … Continue reading
April 21, 2011
by Annelise Riles
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Earlier this month, Stephen Lubben at Dealbook posted an interesting piece querying whether there may be hidden costs associated with giving banks huge breaks in their capitalization requirements under Basel III for close-out netting, the clause in the ISDA master … Continue reading
February 22, 2011
by Annelise Riles
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The scandal pages coming out of Hong Kong this month are full of intrigue about disputes among family members and various other possible “significant others” over the estate of tycoon Stanley Ho. The Financial Times’ story on all this basically … Continue reading
February 14, 2011
by Annelise Riles
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I spend roughly half of each year in the United States and half in Asia. Thinking about markets and their regulation from these two different vantage points makes you confront, every day, the almost comic level of misunderstanding, misconception, and … Continue reading
February 9, 2011
by Annelise Riles
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It’s the Chinese New Year, and the financial press has been full of stories of massive Chinese purchases of gold (for instance here and here), as gold (molded into rabbits to signify that it was given in the year of … Continue reading
January 28, 2011
by Annelise Riles
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(this post was originally published on Jan. 27, 2011 in the business section of the Huffington Post website. Link) There’s a glaring omission in all the talk over financial reform, the question of whether legislation goes far enough to rein … Continue reading