Los imaginarios de “inversores”, “mercados” y “valor” en la distribución del dinero por la industria financiera. Un estudio de caso sobre los derivados de crédito

Abstract: This text is based on participant observation research as an assistant financial analyst in a multinational asset management company based in France in 2004. The purchase of credit derivatives, based on US mortgages, by the employees of this French multinational on behalf of their clients situated around the world, integrated thousands of people in a series of financial interdependencies, the hierarchies and violence of which were managed by other employees like those observed in the fieldwork. The text shows that the distribution of the money through these practices must be understo...