Towards a Socioanalysis of Money, Finance and Capitalism: Beneath the Surface of the Financial Industry

Towards a Socioanalysis of Money, Finance and Capitalism: Beneath the Surface of the Financial Industry
ISBN-10
1136666680
ISBN-13
9781136666681
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
418
Language
English
Published
2013-06-17
Publisher
Routledge
Authors
Susan Long, Burkard Sievers

Description

This book uses the discipline of socio-analysis to explore the meaning of money, markets and the broad financial world that so strongly affects our daily lives. The insight that the financial crisis 'was essentially psychological in origin' (Robert Shiller) and that the world of finance is broadly shaped if not determined by irrational often unconscious factors is not yet broadly shared. This book appears to be one of the first, if not the first contribution that explicitly focuses on what is beneath the surface of money, finance and capital. It invites the reader to explore the financial worl.

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