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The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Finance

The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Finance

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  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 9780199590162
  • Published In: November 2012
  • Format: Hardback , 640 pages
  • Jurisdiction: International ? Disclaimer:
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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

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