ISBN:
9780191641343
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (627 pages)
Series Statement:
Oxford Handbooks Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.3
Keywords:
Economics-Sociological aspects
;
Financial institutions-Sociological aspects
;
Finance
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
The Handbook brings together leading international scholars to provide a comprehensive overview of research and theory on the sociology of finance and the workings of financial institutions and financial markets. It will serve as a reference point for this rapidly expanding discipline.
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Contributors -- Introduction -- PART I: FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND GOVERNANCE -- 1. Global Finance and Its Institutional Spaces -- 2. Politics and Financial Markets -- 3. Finance and Institutional Investors -- 4. Business Groups and Financial Markets as Emergent Phenomena -- 5. Central Banking and the Triumph of Technical Rationality -- PART II: FINANCIAL MARKETS IN ACTION -- 6. What is a Financial Market? Global Markets as Microinstitutional and Post-Traditional Social Forms -- 7. Auctions and Finance -- 8. Interactions and Decisions in Trading -- 9. Traders and Market Morality -- 10. The Material Sociology of Arbitrage -- 11. Seeing Through the Eyes of Others: Dissonance Within and Across Trading Rooms -- PART III: INFORMATION, KNOWLEDGE, AND FINANCIAL RISKS -- 12. Market Efficiency: A Sociological Perspective -- 13. Financial Analysts -- 14. Rating Agencies -- 15. Accounting and Finance -- PART IV: CRISES IN FINANCE -- 16. The International Monetary Regime and Domestic Political Economy: The Origin of the Global Financial Crisis -- 17. A Long Strange Trip: The State and Mortgage Securitization, 1968-2010 -- 18. Dead Pledges: Mortgaging Time and Space -- 19. Financial Crises as Symbols and Rituals -- 20. The Sociology of Financial Fraud -- PART V: VARIETIES OF FINANCE -- 21. The Disunity of Finance: Alternative Practices to Western Finance -- 22. Islamic Banking and Finance: Alternative or Façade? -- 23. Geographies of Finance: The State-Enterprise Clusters of China -- 24. The Financialization of Art -- PART VI: THE HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY OF FINANCE -- 25. Historical Sociology of Modern Finance -- 26. Gender and Finance -- 27. The Role of Confidence in Finance -- 28. Finance in Modern Economic Thought -- 29. Financial Automation, Past, Present, and Future -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E.
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