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Tag Archives: social studies of finance
Who is in Control of Markets: Humans or Financial Models?
by Ekaterina Svetlova* The recent stock market correction raised again the question of who is in control of markets: humans or technology. Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman said on CNBC that „humans are definitely in charge of the decisions in the market” … Continue reading
Market Forecasting: A Sensitive Practice at the Heart of Neoliberal Capitalism
by Stefan Leins* Since the emergence of modern financial markets, financial analysts have played a critical role in producing visions of “the economy” and its future development. As experts, they analyze market developments and predict future scenarios that enable other financial … Continue reading
Financial economics, or “Would you please elaborate on ‘then something bad happened’?”
“Would you please elaborate on ‘then something bad happened’?”
Posted in Theory in Pictures
Tagged economics, finance, financial markets, social studies of finance, stock exchange
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James Tobin on ‘paper economy’ and short-sighted speculation-generating financial instruments
Nobel laureate in Economic Sciences James Tobin wrote at the conclusion of his “On the Efficiency of the Financial System” paper: “We are throwing more and more of our resources, including the cream of our youth, into financial activities remote from the … Continue reading
Posted in Papers
Tagged finance, financial markets, financialization, neoliberalism, social studies of finance, technology
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‘Performativity thesis’: Accounting’s mediating role in bringing theoretical statements from economics into life
An interesting “The ‘performativity thesis’ and its critics: Towards a relational ontology of management accounting” by Ed Vosselman, explores accounting’s mediating role in bringing theoretical statements from economics into life. The paper addresses the so-called performativity thesis that claims that economic … Continue reading
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Tagged accounting, economics, performativity, social studies of finance
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“Classification Situations: Life-chances in the Neoliberal Era” proposes to revisit class analysis through the prism of techno-social changes represented by the advent of market devices
A very interesting research “Classification Situations: Life-chances in the Neoliberal Era” by Marion Fourcade & Kieran Healy examines the stratifying effects of economic classifications. They argue that in the neoliberal era market institutions increasingly use actuarial techniques to split and … Continue reading
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Tagged banking, class, classification, credit, markets, social studies of finance, stratification
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“Seeing, Knowing, and Regulating Financial Markets: Moving the Cognitive Framework from the Economic to the Social”
This (open access) interesing and comprehensive paper by Julia Black (LSE), argues that in order to regulate financial markets, we need a more sophisticated and realistic cognitive framework through which to analyse markets’ dynamics and on which to base their regulation. To that … Continue reading
“Insurgent Capitalism: Island, Bricolage and the Re-making of Finance” by Donald MacKenzie & Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra
Drawing on recent discussions of the material cultures of markets and of financial innovation as bricolage, this paper explores the development of Island, a new share trading venue set up in 1995. The paper examines Island’s roots in a very specific conflict … Continue reading
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Tagged Culture, finance, financial markets, social studies of finance
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Codes of Finance: Engineering Derivatives in a Global Bank
Investment banks are enormously important, yet few social scientists have been inside them. Vincent Antonin Lépinay (MIT), a former bank employee, presents in his new fine book Codes of Finance: Engineering Derivatives in a Global Bank rich and fascinating ethnography, taking … Continue reading
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Tagged banking, derivatives, ethnography, finance, investment, knowledge, social studies of finance
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A Primer in the Social Studies of Finance and Performativity: Theories and Methods
At the recent 2011 Academy of Management conference, Daniel Beunza presented an informative and focused “Primer in the Social Studies of Finance and Performativity: Theories and Methods“. This presentation was concerned with clarifying the specific substance of the social studies … Continue reading
