Framing Finance : The Boundaries of Markets and Modern Capitalism /

As the banking crisis and its effects on the world economy have made plain, the stock market is of colossal importance to our livelihoods. In Framing Finance, Alex Preda looks at the history of the market to figure out how we arrived at a point where investing is not only commonplace, but critical,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Preda, Alex (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2009]
Temas:
Capitalism > Social aspects.
Economic development > Social aspects.
Economics > Sociological aspects.
Finance > Social aspects.
Stock exchanges > Social aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
finance, finances, markets, capitalism, capital, sociology, sociological, sociologists, banking, banks, economy, economics, stock market, history, historical context, investment, investing, speculation, new york, london, paris, internationalism, international trade, observational technology, education, social aspects, boundaries.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Capitalism and the Boundaries of Finance
  • CHAPTER ONE. The Boundaries of Finance in the Sociological Tradition
  • CHAPTER TWO. Prestige, at Last: The Social Closure of the Stock Exchange
  • CHAPTER THREE. Financial Knowledge and the Science of the Market
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Close Up: Price Data, Machines, and Organizational Boundaries
  • CHAPTER FIVE. From Afar: Charts and Their Analysts
  • CHAPTER SIX. The Kaleidoscope of Finance: Speculation, Economic Life, and Society
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. On the Dark Side of the Market
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. Panic!
  • CONCLUSION: Back to the Future
  • References
  • Index

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