The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Finance [Hardcover]

Recent years have seen a surge of interest in the workings of financial institutions and financial markets beyond the discipline of economics, which has been accelerated by the financial crisis of the early twenty-first century.The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Financebrings together twenty-nine chapters, written by scholars of international repute from Europe, North America, and Asia, to provide comprehensive coverage on a variety of topics related to the role of finance in a globalized world, and its historical development.

Topics include global institutions of modern finance, types of actors involved in financial transactions and supporting technologies, mortgage markets, rating agencies, and the role of financial economics. Particular attention is given to financial crises, which are discussed in a special section, as well as to alternative forms of finance, including Islamic finance and the rise of China. TheHandbookwill be an indispensable tool for academics, researchers, and students of contemporary finance and economic sociology, and will serve as a reference point for the expanding international community of scholars researching these areas from a broadly-defined sociological perspective.

Introduction,Karin Knorr Cetina and Alex Preda
Part I. Financial Institutions and Governance
1. Global Finance and Its Institutional Spaces,Saskia Sassen
2. Politics and Financial Markets,Gerald F. Davis
3. Finance and Institutional Investors,Jiwook Jung and Frank Dobbin
4. Business Groups and Financial Markets as Emergent Phenomena,Bruce Kogut
5. Central Banking and the Triumph of Technical Rationality,Mitchel Y. Abolafia
Part II. Financial Markets in Action
6. What is a Financial Market? Global Markets as Microinstitutional and Post-Traditional Social Forms,Karin Knorr Cetina
7. Auctions and Finance,Charles lSf