FINANCIAL CULTURES AND CRISIS DYNAMICS by Bob Jessop (Editor), Brigitte Young (Editor), Christoph Scherrer (Editor) ( 9781317681519 )

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Title:

FINANCIAL CULTURES AND CRISIS DYNAMICS

By:

Bob Jessop (Editor), Brigitte Young (Editor), Christoph Scherrer (Editor)

Format:

Electronic book text

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ISBN 10:

1317681517

ISBN 13:

9781317681519

Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

17 October, 2014

Series:

Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

Pages:

320

Synopsis:

The recent financial crisis exposed both a naive 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.

Illustrations:

5 Line drawings, black and white; 23 Tables, black and white; 5

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Routledge

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