Framing finance
Subtitle: the boundaries of markets and modern capitalism
By: Alex Preda.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226679310; 9780226679327
Copyright date: 2009
Subjects: Finance -- Social aspects; Stock exchanges -- Social aspects; Capitalism -- Social aspects
First sentence: If it is true that we live now in an economic age, and that “the new master narrative has abandoned the social for the economic,” as Tony Judt (2007, p. 24) has recently put it, then finance is the master of this master narrative.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: capitalism and the boundaries of finance; title: The boundaries of finance in the sociological tradition; title: Prestige, at last: the social closure of the stock exchange; title: Financial knowledge and the science of the market; title: Close up: price data, machines, and organizational boundaries; title: From afar: charts and their analysts; title: The kaleidoscope of finance: speculation, economic life, and society; title: On the dark side of the market; title: Panic!; title: Conclusion: back to the future.