CAPITALIST REALISM, FINANCE AND DON DELILLO

Data mining in finance: From extremes to realism

This paper describes data mining in finance by discussing financial tasks and specifics of methodologies and techniques in this data mining area. It includes time dependence, data selection, forecast horizon, measures of success, quality of patterns, hypothesis evaluation, problem ID, method profile, attribute-based, and relational methodologies. 81 1 This paper is a modified version of authors...

SCHOOL OF ACCOUNTING, FINANCE AND MANAGEMENT Lacking Capitalism: Desiring marketing in times of capitalist crisis

In this paper we analyze the social and historical construction process of marketing, and how it is inherently linked to the reproduction of capitalism in times of crisis. Based on Foucauldian discourse theory, we critically interrogate marketing’s discursive change from a productionand sales-led to a consumption-led paradigm in the 1960s and 1970s. We use Lacan’s (1977, 1998) theory of individ...

The rise of internal capitalist diversity? Changing patterns of finance and corporate governance in Europe

The article examines internal diversity within national models of capitalism in Europe, with a particular concern with firm financing and corporate governance patterns. It is suggested that a relatively small number of firms have shifted to a new institutional context consisting of common international institutions and practices, while the large majority of firms continue to operate in a more s...

Islamic Agricultural Finance and Growth

The objective of this study is to model and estimate the effect of financial services in the agricultural sector of Iran on the value added of this sector. Moreover, since as of 1984, the Interest Free Banking law was implemented, the effect of this change on the value added of the sector will be studied as the second objective. The model of the study consists of three tions. The volume of real...

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