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The Handbook brings together leading international scholars to provide a comprehensive overview of research and theory on the sociology of finance and the workings of financial institutions and financial markets. It will serve as a reference point for this rapidly expanding discipline. Karin Knorr Cetina is George Wells Beadle Distinguished Professor in Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Chicago. She is the author of numerous books and articles which have received several scholarly awards. ; Alex Preda is Professor of Accounting, Accountability, and Financial Management, at King’s College London Karin Knorr Cetina and Alex Preda: Introduction; Part I. Financial Institutions and Governance; 1 Saskia Sassen: Global Finance and Its Institutional Spaces; 2 Gerald F. Davis: Politics and Financial Markets; 3 Jiwook Jung and Frank Dobbin: Finance and Institutional Investors; 4 Bruce Kogut: Business Groups and Financial Markets as Emergent Phenomena; 5 Mitchel Y. Abolafia: Central Banking and the Triumph of Technical Rationality; Part II. Financial Markets in Action; 6 Karin Knorr Cetina: What is a Financial Market? Global Markets as Microinstitutional and Post-Traditional Social Forms; 7 Charles W. Smith: Auctions and Finance; 8 Alex Preda: Interactions and Decisions in Trading Alex Preda; 9 Caitlin Zaloom: Traders; 10 Iain Hardie and Donald MacKenzie: The Material Sociology of Arbitrage; 11 Daniel Beunza and David Stark: Seeing Through the Eyes of Others: Dissonance Within and Across Trading Rooms; Part III. Information, Knowledge, and Financial Risks; 12 Ezra W. Zuckerman: Market Efficiency: A Sociological Perspective; 13 Leon Wansleben: Financial Analysts; 14 Martha Poon: Rating Agencies; 15 Michael Power: Accounting and Finance; Part IV. Crises in Finance; 16 Bai Gao: The International Monetary Regime and Domestic Political Economy: the Origin of the Global Financial Crisis; 17 Neil Fligstein and Adam Goldstein: A Long Strange Trip: The State and Mortgage Securitization, 1968 2010; 18 Shaun French and Andrew Leyshon: Dead Pledges: Mortgaging Time and Space; 19 Mark D. Jacobs: Financial Crises as Symbols and Rituals; 20 Brooke Harrington: The Sociology of Financial Fraud; Part V: Varieties of Finance; 21 Bill Maurer: The Disunity of Finance: Alternative Practices to Western Finance; 22 Aaron Z. Pitluck: Islamic Banking and Finance: Alternative or Facade?; 23 Lucia Leung-sea Siu: Geographies of Finance: The State-Enterprise Clusters of China; 24 Olav Velthuis and Erica Coslor: The Financialization of Art; Section VI. The Historical Sociology of Finance; 25 Bruce G. Carruthers: Historical Sociology of Modern Finance; 26 Josephine Maltby and Janette Rutterford: Gender and Finance NB; 27 Richard Swedberg: The Role of Confidence in Finance; 28 Franck Jovanovic: Finance in Modern Economic Thought; 29 Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra: Financial Automation, Past, Present, and Future
