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Conservatives versus wildcats : a sociology of financial conflict
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ISBN: 0804785090 0804785554 9780804785556 9780804785099 Year: 2013 Publisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press,

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For decades, the banking industry seemed to be a Swiss watch, quietly ticking along. But the recent financial crisis hints at the true nature of this sector. As Simone Polillo reveals in Conservatives Versus Wildcats, conflict is a driving force. Conservative bankers strive to control money by allying themselves with political elites to restrict access to credit. Barriers to credit create social resistance, so rival bankers—wildcats—attempt to subvert the status quo by using money as a tool for breaking existing boundaries. For instance, wildcats may increase the circulation of existing currencies, incorporate new actors in financial markets, or produce altogether new financial instruments to create change. Using examples from the economic and social histories of 19th-century America and Italy, two decentralized polities where challenges to sound banking originated from above and below, this book reveals the collective tactics that conservative bankers devise to legitimize strict boundaries around credit—and the transgressive strategies that wildcat bankers employ in their challenge to this restrictive stance.


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The ascent of market efficiency
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ISBN: 9781501750380 1501750399 9781501750397 1501750380 9781501750373 Year: 2020 Publisher: Ithaca

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'The Ascent of Market Efficiency' weaves together historical narrative and quantitative bibliometric data to detail the path financial economists took in order to form one of the central theories of financial economics - the influential efficient-market hypothesis - which states that the behaviour of financial markets is unpredictable.


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The ascent of market efficiency : finance that cannot be proven
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ISBN: 1501750399 Year: 2021 Publisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press,

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'The Ascent of Market Efficiency' weaves together historical narrative and quantitative bibliometric data to detail the path financial economists took in order to form one of the central theories of financial economics - the influential efficient-market hypothesis - which states that the behaviour of financial markets is unpredictable.


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Money Talks

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The world of money is being transformed as households and organizations face changing economies, and new currencies and payment systems like Bitcoin and Apple Pay gain ground. What is money, and how do we make sense of it? Money Talks is the first book to offer a wide range of alternative and unexpected explanations of how social relations, emotions, moral concerns, and institutions shape how we create, mark, and use money. This collection brings together a stellar group of international experts from multiple disciplines-sociology, economics, history, law, anthropology, political science, and philosophy-to propose fresh explanations for money's origins, uses, effects, and future.Money Talks explores five key questions: How do social relationships, emotions, and morals shape how people account for and use their money? How do corporations infuse social meaning into their financing and investment practices? What are the historical, political, and social foundations of currencies? When does money become contested, and are there things money shouldn't buy? What is the impact of the new twenty-first-century currencies on our social relations?At a time of growing concern over financial inequality, Money Talks overturns conventional views about money by revealing its profound social potential.

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Money --- Currency --- Monetary question --- Money, Primitive --- Specie --- Standard of value --- Social aspects. --- Political aspects. --- Exchange --- Finance --- Value --- Banks and banking --- Coinage --- Currency question --- Gold --- Silver --- Silver question --- Wealth --- Economics --- Social aspects --- Political aspects --- Sociological aspects --- E-books --- Economic sociology --- Socio-economics --- Socioeconomics --- Sociology of economics --- Sociology --- Money. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General. --- Sociological aspects. --- Australia. --- Bitcoin. --- Bretton Woods. --- China. --- Geoffrey Ingham. --- Indian migrants. --- Russia. --- US Financial Diaries. --- Viviana Zelizer. --- alternative currency. --- asset valuation. --- business money. --- capitalism. --- capitalization. --- charitable giving. --- charity contributions. --- commercial exchanges. --- commercial surrogates. --- complementary currency. --- constitutional approach. --- corporations. --- credit cards. --- credit. --- currency. --- domestic economy. --- donations. --- double-entry bookkeeping. --- earmarking income. --- earmarks. --- economic sociology. --- economic theory. --- egg donor. --- emotion. --- emotional labor. --- emotions. --- finance. --- financial inequality. --- fungibility. --- fungible money. --- gender difference. --- generalized capitalization. --- immateriality. --- industrial money. --- internal design. --- international gold standard. --- international monetary system. --- investment. --- mental accounting. --- migrant remittances. --- mirage. --- modern currency. --- monetary analysis. --- monetary differentiation. --- monetary forms. --- monetary practices. --- monetary valuation. --- money flow. --- money. --- moral judgments. --- morals. --- nationalism. --- nonfungibility. --- organizational budgeting. --- paid donations. --- plastic money. --- public authority. --- purchasing power. --- relational accounting systems. --- sociability. --- social impact. --- social life. --- social meaning. --- social relationships. --- sperm donor. --- transnational money. --- win-lose exchanges. --- world monetary union.

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