Investable!
When Pandemic Risk Meets Speculative Finance
$45.05
- Paperback
248 pages
- Release Date
17 June 2025
Summary
A critical and sobering look at how international bankers and investors turn pandemics into investment opportunities, and what we stand to lose when we rely on “innovative finance.”
In a world increasingly defined by crisis, bankers and investors behind the scenes turn catastrophes like pandemics into financial securities that can be bought and sold. Offering new insights into how the excesses of capitalism shape pandemic preparedness, Investable! is an ethnography of World B…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262549356 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262549352 |
| Author: | Susan Erikson |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 248 |
| Release Date: | 17 June 2025 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
”[A] compelling case for treating this misguided financial product as a cultural artifact — one that reflects the values, assumptions, and contradictions of a particular global order.” – Jacobin
About The Author
Susan Erikson
Susan Erikson is a medical anthropologist and Distinguished Professor at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, where she studies complex political and economic systems that shape human health.
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