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The sociology of financial markets /
Financial markets have often been seen by economists as efficient mechanisms that fulfill vital functions within economies. But do financial markets really operate in such a straightforward manner? The Sociology of Financial Markets approaches financial markets from a sociological perspective. It se...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Karin Knorr Cetina, Alex Preda
- SECTION I. INSIDE FINANCIAL MARKETS
- The embeddedness of electronic markets: the case of global capital markets / Saskia Sassen
- How are global markets global? The architecture of a flow world / Karin Knorr Cetina
- How a superportfolio emerges: long-term capital management and the sociology of arbitrage / Donald MacKenzie
- How to recognize opportunities: heterarchical search in a trading room / Daniel Beunza, David Stark
- Emotions on the trading floor: social and symbolic expressions / Jean-Pierre Hassoun
- Women in financial services: fiction and more fiction / Barbara Czarniawska
- SECTION II. THE AGE OF THE INVESTOR
- The investor as a cultural figure of global capitalism / Alex Preda
- The values and beliefs of European investors / Werner De Bondt
- Conflicts of interests in the US brokerage industry / Richard Swedberg
- SECTION III. FINANCE AND GOVERNANCE
- Interpretive politics at the Federal Reserve / Mitchel Y. Abolafia
- The return of bureaucracy: managing dispersed knowledge in global finance / Gordon L. Clark, Nigel Thrift
- Enterprise risk management and the organization of uncertainty in financial institutions / Michael Power
- Managing investors: how financial markets reshaped the American firm / Dirk Zorn [and others]
- Nothing but net? Networks and status in corporate governance / Gerald Davis, Gregory Robbins.