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Perpetual anarchy: From economic security to financial insecurity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2023

S.M. Amadae
S.M. Amadae*
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
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Corresponding author: S.M. Amadae, MassachusettsInstitute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, USA.Email: amadae@mit.edu
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This forum contribution addresses two major themes in de Goede's original essay on ‘Financial security’: (1) the relationship between stable markets and the proverbial ‘security dilemma’; and (2) the development of new decision-technologies to address risk in the post-World War II period. Its argument is that the confluence of these two themes through rational choice theory represents a fundamental re-evaluation of the security dilemma and its relationship to the rule of law governing market relations, ushering in an era of perpetual physical and financial insecurity.

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Forum: Conceptualising finance-security relations
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Finance and Society , Volume 3 , Issue 2: Finance and security , 2017 , pp. 188 - 196
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