Overview

Recent years have seen a surge of interest in the workings of financial institutions and financial markets beyond the discipline of economics, which has been accelerated by the financial crisis of the early twenty-first century. The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Finance brings together twenty-nine chapters, written by scholars of international repute from Europe, North America, and Asia, to provide comprehensive coverage on a variety of topics related to the role of finance in a globalized world, and its historical development. Topics include global institutions of modern finance, types of actors involved in financial transactions and supporting technologies, mortgage markets, rating agencies, and the role of financial economics. Particular attention is given to financial crises, which are discussed in a special section, as well as to alternative forms of finance, including Islamic finance and the rise of China. The Handbook will be an indispensable tool for academics, researchers, and students of contemporary finance and economic sociology, and will serve as a reference point for the expanding international community of scholars researching these areas from a broadly-defined sociological perspective.

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Author:   Karin Knorr Cetina (Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago) ,  Alex Preda (, Professor of Accounting, Accountability, and Financial Management, Department of Management, King's College London)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.10cm , Height: 3.90cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   1.252kg
ISBN:  

9780199590162

ISBN 10:   0199590168
Pages:   640
Publication Date:   29 November 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Karin Knorr Cetina and Alex Preda: Introduction Part I. Financial Institutions and Governance 1: Saskia Sassen: Global Finance and Its Institutional Spaces 2: Gerald F. Davis: Politics and Financial Markets 3: Jiwook Jung and Frank Dobbin: Finance and Institutional Investors 4: Bruce Kogut: Business Groups and Financial Markets as Emergent Phenomena 5: Mitchel Y. Abolafia: Central Banking and the Triumph of Technical Rationality Part II. Financial Markets in Action 6: Karin Knorr Cetina: What is a Financial Market? Global Markets as Microinstitutional and Post-Traditional Social Forms 7: Charles W. Smith: Auctions and Finance 8: Alex Preda: Interactions and Decisions in Trading Alex Preda 9: Caitlin Zaloom: Traders 10: Iain Hardie and Donald MacKenzie: The Material Sociology of Arbitrage 11: Daniel Beunza and David Stark: Seeing Through the Eyes of Others: Dissonance Within and Across Trading Rooms Part III. Information, Knowledge, and Financial Risks 12: Ezra W. Zuckerman: Market Efficiency: A Sociological Perspective 13: Leon Wansleben: Financial Analysts 14: Martha Poon: Rating Agencies 15: Michael Power: Accounting and Finance Part IV. Crises in Finance 16: Bai Gao: The International Monetary Regime and Domestic Political Economy: the Origin of the Global Financial Crisis 17: Neil Fligstein and Adam Goldstein: A Long Strange Trip: The State and Mortgage Securitization, 1968 2010 18: Shaun French and Andrew Leyshon: Dead Pledges: Mortgaging Time and Space 19: Mark D. Jacobs: Financial Crises as Symbols and Rituals 20: Brooke Harrington: The Sociology of Financial Fraud Part V: Varieties of Finance 21: Bill Maurer: The Disunity of Finance: Alternative Practices to Western Finance 22: Aaron Z. Pitluck: Islamic Banking and Finance: Alternative or Façade? 23: Lucia Leung-sea Siu: Geographies of Finance: The State-Enterprise Clusters of China 24: Olav Velthuis and Erica Coslor: The Financialization of Art Section VI. The Historical Sociology of Finance 25: Bruce G. Carruthers: Historical Sociology of Modern Finance 26: Josephine Maltby and Janette Rutterford: Gender and Finance   27: Richard Swedberg: The Role of Confidence in Finance 28: Franck Jovanovic: Finance in Modern Economic Thought 29: Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra: Financial Automation, Past, Present, and Future

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Karin Knorr Cetina is George Wells Beadle Distinguished Professor in Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Chicago. She is the author of numerous books and articles which have received several scholarly awards. Alex Preda is Professor of Accounting, Accountability, and Financial Management, at King's College London

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