Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Financiers at work, financialisation on the march
Valérie Boussard
PART I The boundaries of finance: Exclusionary process, social closure and inner regulation
Introduction: Interrogating financialization as an analytic
Karen Ho
Chapter 1 Let’s make the company a bunch of figures: Professional representations in mergers and acquisitions firms
Valérie Boussard and Marie-Anne Dujarier
Chapter 2 Matching the market: Calibration and the working practices of quants
Taylor Spears
Chapter 3 Buying it: Financialisation through socialisation
Natascha van der Zwan
Chapter 4 Financial logic and bankers’ institutional entrepreneurship: The politics of the "zombies" debate in bankruptcy proceedings at the Commercial Court of Paris (2000–2005)
Emmanuel Lazega, Lise Mounier and Sylvan Lemaire
PART II
Passing through boundaries: Financiers as intermediaries in conversion to financial logics
Introduction: Financialising economic activities
Donald MacKenzie
Chapter 5 The financialization of the private wealth of farmers: Is it the work of the banks?
Gilles Laferté and Abdoul Diallo
Chapter 6 Financial backlash: When local bankers face social protest
Quentin Ravelli
Chapter 7 The assetisation of South African farmland: The role of finance and brokers
Antoine Ducastel and Ward Anseeuw
PART III
Crossing boundaries: Individual careers as vehicles for financialisation
Introduction: The financialisation of finance: The transformation of the French financial eli
Biography
Valérie Boussard is Professor of Sociology and Head of the Department of Sociology at the Paris Nanterre University, France. Her works are focused on the managerialisation and financialisation of contemporary firms through the analysis of professional and occupational groups which take part in such dynamics.
