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An in-depth history of how finance remade everyday life in Thatcher's Britain. Are We Rich Yet? tells the story of the financialization of British society. During the 1980s and 1990s, financial markets became part of daily life for many Britons as the practice of investing moved away from the offices of the City of London, onto Britain's high streets, and into people's homes. The Conservative Party claimed this shift as evidence that capital ownership was in the process of being democratized. In practice, investing became more institutionalized than ever in late-twentieth-century Britain: inclusion frequently meant tying one's fortunes to the credit, insurance, pension, and mortgage industries to maintain independence from state-run support systems.   In tracing the rise of a consumer-oriented mass investment culture, historian Amy Edwards explains how the "financial" became such a central part of British society, not only economically and politically, but socially and culturally, too. She shifts our focus away from the corridors of Whitehall and towards a cast of characters that included brokers, bankers and traders, newspaper editors, goods manufacturers, marketing departments, production companies, and hundreds of thousands of ordinary men and women. Between them, they shaped the terrain upon which political and economic reform occurred. Grappling with the interactions between structural transformation and the rhythms of everyday life, Are We Rich Yet? thus understands the rise of neoliberalism as something other than the inevitable outcome of a carefully orchestrated right-wing political revolution.

Investments --- Finance --- Capitalism --- Great Britain --- Economic conditions --- 80s. --- 90s. --- British financial policy. --- London Stock Exchange. --- Margaret Thatcher government. --- Thatcherism. --- banking industry. --- culture. --- financial literacy. --- financialization. --- investment clubs. --- middle class investors. --- popular investing. --- stock market. --- yuppie-trader. --- yuppies.

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Uncovering strange plots by early British anthropologists to use scientific status to manipulate the stock market, Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange tells a provocative story that marries the birth of the social sciences with the exploits of global finance. Marc Flandreau tracks a group of Victorian gentleman-swindlers as they shuffled between the corridors of the London Stock Exchange and the meeting rooms of learned society, showing that anthropological studies were integral to investment and speculation in foreign government debt, and, inversely, that finance played a crucial role in shaping the contours of human knowledge. Flandreau argues that finance and science were at the heart of a new brand of imperialism born during Benjamin Disraeli's first term as Britain's prime minister in the 1860s. As anthropologists advocated the study of Miskito Indians or stated their views on a Jamaican rebellion, they were in fact catering to the impulses of the stock exchange-for their own benefit. In this way the very development of the field of anthropology was deeply tied to issues relevant to the financial market-from trust to corruption. Moreover, this book shows how the interplay between anthropology and finance formed the foundational structures of late nineteenth-century British imperialism and helped produce essential technologies of globalization as we know it today.

Anthropology --- Learned institutions and societies --- Stock exchanges --- Bulls and bears --- Commercial corners --- Corners, Commercial --- Equity markets --- Exchanges, Securities --- Exchanges, Stock --- Securities exchanges --- Stock-exchange --- Stock markets --- Capital market --- Efficient market theory --- Speculation --- Academies (Learned societies) --- Learned societies --- Scholarly societies --- Associations, institutions, etc. --- Human beings --- History --- Corrupt practices --- Anthropological Society of London --- Stock Exchange (London, England) --- London. --- Royal Exchange (London, England) --- International Stock Exchange --- Anthropological Society, London --- Ethnological Society of London --- Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland --- Money market. Capital market --- Primitive societies --- Social sciences --- London Stock Exchange. --- anthropology. --- knowledge. --- science. --- stock exchange. --- technologies of globalization. --- trust.

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The efficiency, safety, and soundness of financial markets depend on the operation of core infrastructure--exchanges, central counter-parties, and central securities depositories. How these institutions are governed critically affects their performance. Yet, despite their importance, there is little certainty, still less a global consensus, about their governance. Running the World's Markets examines how markets are, and should be, run. Utilizing a wide variety of arguments and examples from throughout the world, Ruben Lee identifies and evaluates the similarities and differences between exchanges, central counter-parties, and central securities depositories. Drawing on knowledge and experience from various disciplines, including business, economics, finance, law, politics, and regulation, Lee employs a range of methodologies to tackle different goals. Conceptual analysis is used to examine theoretical issues, survey evidence to describe key aspects of how market infrastructure institutions are governed and regulated globally, and case studies to detail the particular situations and decisions at specific institutions. The combination of these approaches provides a unique and rich foundation for evaluating the complex issues raised. Lee analyzes efficient forms of governance, how regulatory powers should be allocated, and whether regulatory intervention in governance is desirable. He presents guidelines for identifying the optimal governance model for any market infrastructure institution within the context of its specific environment. Running the World's Markets provides a definitive and peerless reference for how to govern and regulate financial markets.

International finance --- Finance --- Stock exchanges --- Management. --- AA / International- internationaal --- 333.600 --- Financiële markten. Kapitaalmarkten (algemeenheden). --- Bulls and bears --- Commercial corners --- Corners, Commercial --- Equity markets --- Exchanges, Securities --- Exchanges, Stock --- Securities exchanges --- Stock-exchange --- Stock markets --- Capital market --- Efficient market theory --- Speculation --- Funding --- Funds --- Economics --- Currency question --- Management --- Financiële markten. Kapitaalmarkten (algemeenheden) --- E-books --- Financial management. --- Canadian Depository for Securities. --- Clearstream International. --- Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation. --- Deutsche Brse. --- Euroclear. --- European Central Counterparty Limited. --- Financial Sector Assessment Program. --- Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing. --- International Council of Securities Associations. --- International Organization of Securities Commissions. --- LCH.Clearnet. --- London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange. --- London Stock Exchange. --- Murakami Fund. --- NASDAQ. --- New York Stock Exchange. --- Osaka Securities Exchange. --- World Federation of Exchanges. --- board composition. --- cash equity markets. --- central counter-parties. --- central counterparties. --- central securities depositories. --- central securities. --- clearing institutions. --- exchanges. --- fair markets. --- financial markets. --- financial regulation. --- governance model. --- governance. --- harmoniztion. --- industry structure. --- infrastructure institutions. --- infrastructure. --- investor protection. --- jurisdiction. --- jurisdictions. --- market infrastructure institutions. --- market infrastructure. --- market power. --- ownership structure. --- profit mandate. --- regulatory authority. --- regulatory intervention. --- regulatory power allocation. --- regulatory powers. --- securities markets. --- settlement entities. --- standardization. --- systemic risk reduction.