1st Edition

The Routledge Handbook of Critical Finance Studies

Edited By Christian Borch, Robert Wosnitzer Copyright 2021
442 Pages
by Routledge

442 Pages
by Routledge

442 Pages
by Routledge

There has been an increasing interest in financial markets across sociology, history, anthropology, cultural studies, and related disciplines over the past decades, with particular intensity since the 2007–2008 crisis which prompted new analyses of the workings of financial markets and how “scandals of Wall Street” might have huge societal ramifications. The sociologically inclined landscape of... Read more
 

INTRODUCTION;

Christian Borch: What is Critical Finance Studies?;

PART I: KEY CONCEPTS;

Ch 1: Horacio Ortiz: Liquidity;

Ch 2: Benjamin Lee: Volatility;

Ch 3: Martijn Konings: Speculation;

Ch 4: Alex Preda: Financial Noise;

Ch 5: Carolyn Hardin and Adam Richard Rottinghaus: Risk and Arbitrage;

PART II: CENTRAL ACTORS AND INSTITUTIONS;

Ch 6: Nathan Coombs: Financial Regulation;

Ch 7: Clément Fontan and Louis Larue: Central Banking;

Ch 8: Angela Wigger and Rodrigo Fernandez: Shadow Banking and the Rise of Global Debt;

Ch 9: Yamina Tadjeddine: Financial Intermediaries;

Ch 10: Daniel Scott Souleles: Private Equity;

Ch 11: Ekaterina Svetlova: Financial Models;

Ch 12: Ann-Christina Lange: High-Frequency Trading;

PART III: FINANCIALIZATION;

Ch 13: Dick Bryan, David Harvie, Mike Rafferty and Bruno Tinel: The Financialized State;

Ch 14: Léna Pellandini-Simányi: The Financialization of Everyday Life;

Ch 15: José Ossandón: Consumer Credit and Credit Assessment;

Ch 16: Julian Hartman and Mark Kear: Critical Financial Geography;

Ch 17: Jing Wang: Fin-Tech;

Ch 18: Torsten Andreasen, Mikkel Krause Frantzen and Frederik Tygstrup: Finance Fiction;

Ch 19: Victoria Ivanova and Gerald Nestler: Art, Markets, and Finance;

Biography

Christian Borch is Professor of Economic Sociology and Social Theory at the Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.

Robert Wosnitzer is Clinical Associate Professor of Management Communication at New York University Stern School of Business.