ABE FELLOWSHIP COLLOQUIUM

“Arbitraging Japan, Dreams of Capitalism at the End of Finance”

Speaker : Hirokazu Miyazaki
Professor of Anthropology and Director of the East Asia Program　Cornell University/ Abe Fellow (1998)

Moderator: Naoki Kamiyama　
Head of Japan Equity Strategy, Global Research, Merrill Lynch Japan Securities Co., Ltd.

When? Thursday 25th, 2013, From 6PM to
8PM

Where? Sakura Hall, 2F, Japan Foundation, 4-4-1 Yotsuya, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo

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Notes: The presentation will be in
Japanese. Admission is free.

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ABE FELLOWSHIP COLLOQUIUM
“Arbitraging Japan: Dreams of Capitalism at the End of Finance”
Since the world financial crisis of 2007-2008, many professionals in the finance industry have come to believe that the “age of finance” with its high level financial theories and technical financial tools has come to an end. Needless to say, this does not mean that we no longer need financial theories or financial tools. But, we may have entered an era that is somewhat different from that when the financial professionals controlled our economy and society. If we assume this understanding of the “end of the age of finance,”
what implications does it have for the future of capitalism? At the same time, we can wonder what paths the professionals who worked in the financial markets will pursue in the future. In this talk, an anthropologist who has followed the careers of financial professionals in Tokyo since 1990 uses one of the fundamental building blocks of financial theory-arbitrage-as a way to trace the paths of their dreams.
Biographical Information

Hirokazu Miyazaki: Associate Professor at Cornell University, Department of Anthropology. He received his PhD in Anthropology from the Australian National University in 1998. Prof. Miyazaki’s field of specialization covers anthropology issues such as knowledge, hope, risk and trust, but also the social studies of finance. Other publications from him
include: “Arbitraging Faith and Reason” in American Ethnologist (2007) and “Between arbitrage and
speculation: an economy of belief and doubt” in Economy and Society (2007). He received the Abe Fellowship in 1998 for his research project entitled:
“Transnational Encounters: Relations between Japanese and Americans in the Tokyo and Chicago Futures Markets”.