The sociology of financial markets
By: edited by Karin Knorr Cetina and Alex Preda.
Contributors: Knorr-Cetina, K.; Preda, Alex, 1960-
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9780199296927
Subjects: Economics -- Sociological aspects
Notes: Originally published in 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Karin Knorr Cetina, -- Alex Preda -- SECTION I. INSIDE FINANCIAL MARKETS; title: The embeddedness of electronic markets : the case of global capital markets -- Saskia Sassen; title: How are global markets global? The architecture of a flow world -- Karin Knorr Cetina; title: How a superportfolio emerges : long-term capital management and the sociology of arbitrage -- Donald MacKenzie; title: How to recognize opportunities : heterarchical search in a trading room -- Daniel Beunza, -- David Stark; title: Emotions on the trading floor : social and symbolic expressions -- Jean-Pierre Hassoun; title: Women in financial services : fiction and more fiction -- Barbara Czarniawska -- SECTION II. THE AGE OF THE INVESTOR; title: The investor as a cultural figure of global capitalism -- Alex Preda; title: The values and beliefs of European investors -- Werner De Bondt; title: Conflicts of interests in the US brokerage industry -- Richard Swedberg -- SECTION III. FINANCE AND GOVERNANCE; title: Interpretive politics at the Federal Reserve -- Mitchel Y. Abolafia; title: The return of bureaucracy : managing dispersed knowledge in global finance -- Gordon L. Clark, -- Nigel Thrift; title: Enterprise risk management and the organization of uncertainty in financial institutions -- Michael Power; title: Managing investors : how financial markets reshaped the American firm -- Dirk Zorn ... [et al.]; title: Nothing but net? Networks and status in corporate governance -- Gerald Davis, -- Gregory Robbins.