Research Catalog

Title

Financial cultures and crisis dynamics / edited by Bob Jessop, Brigitte Young, Christoph Scherrer.

Publication

New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.

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Additional Authors

• Jessop, Bob.
• Young, Brigitte, 1946-
• Scherrer, Christoph.

Description

xxviii, 320 pages; 25 cm

Summary

"The recent financial crisis exposed both a naïve faith in mathematical models to manage risk and a crude culture of greed that embraces risk. This book explores cultures of finance in sites such as corporate governance, hedge funds, central banks, the City of London and Wall Street, and small and medium enterprises. It uses different methods to explore these cultures and their interaction with different financial orders to improve our understanding of financial crisis dynamics.The introduction identifies types of cultural turn in studies of finance. Part I outlines relevant research methods, including comparison of national cultures viewed as independent variables, cultural political economy, and critical discourse and narrative policy analysis. Part II examines different institutional cultures of finance and the cult of entrepreneurship. Part III offers historical, comparative and contemporary analyses of financial regimes and their significance for crisis dynamics. Part IV explores organizational cultures, modes of calculation, and financial practices and how they shape economic performance and guide crisis management. Part V considers crisis construals and responses in the European Union and China.This book's great strength is its multi-faceted approach to cultures of finance. Contributors deploy the cultural turn creatively to enhance comparative and historical analysis of financial regimes, institutions, organizations, and practices as well as their roles in crisis generation, construal, and management. Developing different paradigms and methods and elaborating diverse case studies, the authors illustrate not only how and why 'culture matters' but also how its significance is shaped by different financial regimes and contexts"--

Subject

• Financial crises
• Financial risk management
• BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Finance

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JBE 15-209

ISBN

• 9781138776043 (hardback)
• 1138776041 (hardback)
• 9781315773476 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2014018107

OCLC

870919125

Title

Financial cultures and crisis dynamics / edited by Bob Jessop, Brigitte Young, Christoph Scherrer.

Publisher

New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Jessop, Bob.

Young, Brigitte, 1946-

Scherrer, Christoph.

Research Call Number

JBE 15-209