{"product_id":"rated-agency-investee-politics-in-a-speculative-age-hardcover","title":"Rated Agency: Investee Politics in a Speculative Age - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichel Feher\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eGregory Elliott\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe hegemony of finance compels a new orientation for everyone and everything: companies care more about the moods of their shareholders than about longstanding commercial success; governments subordinate citizen welfare to appeasing creditors; and individuals are concerned less with immediate income from labor than appreciation of their capital goods, skills, connections, and reputations. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThat firms, states, and people depend more on their ratings than on the product of their activities also changes how capitalism is resisted. For activists, the focus of grievances shifts from the extraction of profit to the conditions under which financial institutions allocate credit. While the exploitation of employees by their employers has hardly been curbed, the power of investors to select investees -- to decide who and what is deemed creditworthy -- has become a new site of social struggle. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn clear and compelling prose, Michel Feher explains the extraordinary shift in conduct and orientation generated by financialization. Above all, he articulates the new political resistances and aspirations that investees draw from their rated agency.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGary Tomlinson is John Hay Whitney Professor of Music and Humanities at Yale University, where he directs the Whitney Humanities Center. His books include \u003ci\u003eMusic in Renaissance Magic: Toward a Historiography of Others; Metaphysical Song: An Essay on Opera;\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Singing of the New World: Indigenous Voice in the Era of European Contact.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 7.9 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 26, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769847021856,"sku":"9781942130123","price":31.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/95d22590042e3fc136eb46871463eebd.webp?v=1780358106","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/rated-agency-investee-politics-in-a-speculative-age-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}