Emotions in finance
Subtitle: distrust and uncertainty in global markets / Jocelyn Pixley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, U.K; New York, NY, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: Finance -- Psychological aspects; Trust -- Economic aspects; Uncertainty; Economic forecasting -- Psychological aspects; Risk assessment -- Psychological aspects; Risk management
Description: "Emotions in Finance examines the views of experienced elites in the international financial world. It argues the current financial era is driven by a utopianism - a hope - that the future can be collapsed into the present. It points out policy implications of this short-term view at the unstable peak of global finance." "This book provides a timely account of the influence of emotion and speculation on the world's increasingly volatile financial sector. The author includes absorbing interview material from public and private bankers in the United States, UK and Australia."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-218) and index
Table of contents: title: Global markets or social relations of money; title: Emotion in the kingdom of rationality; title: The financial media as institutional trust agencies; title: Emotions in the boardroom; title: Credibility and confidence in the central banks; title: Hierarchies of trust; title: Overwhelmed by numbers; title: The time utopia in finance; title: The implications: emotions and rationality