Financial cultures and crisis dynamics /

"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...

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Group Author: Jessop, Bob; Young, Brigitte, 1946; Scherrer, Christoph
Published: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
Publisher Address: New York :
Publication Dates: 2015.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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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 method
Carrier Form: xxviii, 320 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781138776043 (hardback) :
1138776041 (hardback)
Index Number: HB3722
CLC: F830.99
Call Number: F830.99/F491-4