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Trading Truth (How Financial Markets Shape Reality)
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Product Details
Author:
Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
200
Publisher:
MIT Press (February 16, 2027)
Imprint:
The MIT Press
Release Date:
February 16, 2027
Language:
English
Audience:
General/trade
ISBN-13:
9780262059374
ISBN-10:
0262059371
Weight:
20oz
Dimensions:
5.25" x 8"
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List Price:
$27.95
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United States
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65
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12
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Overview
How financial markets fuel conspiracy culture and our crisis of truth—and why rethinking finance is democracy’s most urgent need.
“An important book showing that ‘post-truth politics’ cannot be understood without studying the broader socioeconomic transformation of our times, especially the rise of finance. A must-read.” –Thomas Piketty
Current debates treat disinformation as if it were a cultural failure, suggesting that our remedies should focus on restoring expertise, fact checking, or media literacy. But what if we are missing the crux of the issue? In Trading Truth, Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou argues that we are—that, in fact, distortion is not a glitch of political reality but a systemic feature of finance capitalism. Far from merely corrupting truth, financial markets—from machine-learning trading and cryptocurrencies to ETFs and prediction markets—reshape what counts as real and what gets dismissed as fake.
This book traces this distortion and its role in the making of a new kind of financial populism, one that binds Trump’s MAGA movement and tech lords to finance’s rising titans: asset managers and quant traders. This alliance—political as much as epistemic—takes shape around warped valuations, spurious correlations, and the systematic leveraging of volatility. And yet it draws in vast publics, offering a form of belonging and participation that mainstream politics has failed to provide.
The author shows how today’s conspiratorial culture is inseparable from the operations of finance in ways not recognized before. More than disinformation, fraud, or manipulation, distortion becomes a means of managing the vast complexity of our time, and even of finding community within it. The book offers readers a way forward: a theory of truth that meets finance head on and reimagines how it could be turned toward shared prosperity.
“An important book showing that ‘post-truth politics’ cannot be understood without studying the broader socioeconomic transformation of our times, especially the rise of finance. A must-read.” –Thomas Piketty
Current debates treat disinformation as if it were a cultural failure, suggesting that our remedies should focus on restoring expertise, fact checking, or media literacy. But what if we are missing the crux of the issue? In Trading Truth, Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou argues that we are—that, in fact, distortion is not a glitch of political reality but a systemic feature of finance capitalism. Far from merely corrupting truth, financial markets—from machine-learning trading and cryptocurrencies to ETFs and prediction markets—reshape what counts as real and what gets dismissed as fake.
This book traces this distortion and its role in the making of a new kind of financial populism, one that binds Trump’s MAGA movement and tech lords to finance’s rising titans: asset managers and quant traders. This alliance—political as much as epistemic—takes shape around warped valuations, spurious correlations, and the systematic leveraging of volatility. And yet it draws in vast publics, offering a form of belonging and participation that mainstream politics has failed to provide.
The author shows how today’s conspiratorial culture is inseparable from the operations of finance in ways not recognized before. More than disinformation, fraud, or manipulation, distortion becomes a means of managing the vast complexity of our time, and even of finding community within it. The book offers readers a way forward: a theory of truth that meets finance head on and reimagines how it could be turned toward shared prosperity.
