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The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Finance

The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Finance

Author: Karin Knorr Cetina; Alex Preda
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199590162
Published In: November 2012
Format: Hardback , 640 pages
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Comprehensive overview of all major topics related to the sociology of contemporary global finance
Contributions from scholars of international repute
Sections on: Financial Institutions and Governance; Financial Markets in Action; Information, Knowledge, and Financial Risks; Crises in Finance; Varieties of Finance; and the Historical Sociology of Finance
Covers a range of theoretical approaches
Interdisciplinary appeal across Business and Management, Sociology, and Economics and Finance

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.

Readership: Academics, researchers, and graduate students in Business, Finance, Economics, and Sociology.

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

Edited by Karin Knorr Cetina, Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago, and Alex Preda, Professor of Accounting, Accountability, and Financial Management, Department of Management, King's College London

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

Contributors:
Mitchel Abolafia, SUNY/ Albany
Daniel Beunza, LSE
Bruce Carruthers, Northwestern University
Erica Coslor, University of Chicago
Gerald Davis, University of Michigan
Frank Dobbin, Harvard University
Neil Fligstein, University of California, Berkeley
Shaun French, University of Nottingham
Bai Gao, Duke University
Adam Goldstein, University of California, Berkeley
Iain Hardie, University of Edinburgh
Brooke Harrington, Max Planck Institute Cologne
Mark Jacobs, George Mason University
Franck Jovanovic, Universite de Quebec a Montreal
Jiwook Jung, Harvard University
Karin Knorr Cetina, University of Chicago
Bruce Kogut, Columbia University
Andrew Leyshon, University of Nottingham
Donald MacKenzie, University of Edinburgh
Josephine Maltby, York University
Bill Maurer, UC Irvine
Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, University of Edinburgh
Aaron Z. Pitluck, Illinois State University
Martha Poon, UCSD
Michael Power, LSE
Alex Preda, King's College London
Janette Rutterford, Open University
Saskia Sassen, Columbia University
Lucia Siu, Lingnan University Hong Kong
Charles Smith, CUNY
David Stark, Columbia University
Richard Swedberg, Cornell University
Olav Velthuis, University of Amsterdam
Leon Wansleben, University of Konstanz
Caitlin Zaloom, New York University
Ezra Zuckerman, MIT