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Title The making of finance : perspectives from the social sciences / edited by Isabelle Chambost, Marc Lenglet and Yamina Tadjeddine
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Published London : New York : Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, 2019

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Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: finance as social science; PART I: Critical analysis of mainstream financial theory and its uses; 1 Financial services: a collection of arrangements; 2 Taming the risk borne by financial products; 3 The political and moral imaginaries of financial practices; 4 The role of financial analysts in the social construction of financial value
5 Public-private partnerships (PPP) between financing requirements and micro-economic governance: complementary scientific and real-world justifications6 The risk fluctuation: the consequences of avoiding interest rate risk; 7 What makes a price a price? Commensuration work on financial markets; 8 The leptokurtic crisis and the discontinuous turn in financial modelling; 9 Beyond performativity, how and why American courts should not have used efficient market hypothesis; PART II: Structural dynamics in the financial industry
10 Sources of risks in financial innovations: embedded and additional risks in Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)11 Junior stock markets and SMEs: an ideal relation? The case of the Alternative Investment Market; 12 Structures and measures for responsible finance; 13 Territories of finance: the Parisian case; 14 The workforce and professional training in banks; 15 Cooperative banking: finding a place for the social in finance?; 16 Relationship banking -- an "endangered species"? Evidence from Germany; 17 The future of stock exchanges has a long past: what can we learn from financial history?
18 Compliance and the regulation of practices: a two-fold paradox19 Financial regulation: a question of point of view; PART III: A new system of accumulation; 20 Sociological domestication of a financial product: the case of derivatives; 21 The work of financialisation; 22 Circuits of trust and money: the resilience of the Italian Credito Cooperativo; 23 Justification and critique in the credit rating system: reaffirming the power of agencies; 24 The function of finance: an ethnographic analysis of competing ideas; 25 At the very heart of financial dominance: the case of LBOs
26 The internationalisation of the mutual fund sector and the origin of the financialization: a historical process of production rules27 Conceptualising finance within the capital-labour nexus: asset management as a new zone of social conflict; 28 Democracy and the political representation of investors: on French sovereign debt transactions and elections; 29 Knitting together finance and our daily lives; 30 Making sense of the economy: a network of debt network coordinated by currency; Conclusion: what finance manufactures; Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographic references and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Finance.
Banks and banking.
Financial institutions -- Law and legislation.
finance.
Banks and banking
Finance
Financial institutions -- Law and legislation
Form Electronic book
Author Chambost, Isabelle, editor.
Lenglet, Marc, 1978- editor.
Tadjeddine, Yamina
LC no. 2019719352
ISBN 9781351016117
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