Towards a socioanalysis of money, finance and capitalism : beneath the surface of the financial industry

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Author:

Long, Susan

ISBN:

9780415600316

9780203808153

Publication Information:

New York : Routledge, 2012.

Physical Description:

xx, 394 p. ; 24 cm.

Series:

Routledge international studies in money and banking ; 67

General Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Note continued: 11.Risk as present futures: an elaboration on risk and fear / Peter Pelzer ; 12.Trading opportunities and risks: conflicting methods of coordination in investment banks / Karin Winroth ; 13.Roles, risks and complexity: an exploration of the triangle institutional investors, executive boards and supervisory boards in the Netherlands / Angelien Kemna ; 14.When profit seeking trumps safety: the risks and opportunities of liminality in commercial aviation in post-9/11 America / Amy L. Fraher ; 15.Social dreams of the financial crisis / W. Gordon Lawrence ; 16.The consumer credit boom and its aftermath in Hungary: on the changing role of commercial banks / Sandor Takacs ; 17.Falling bankers and falling banks: a psychoanalytical exploration of the Phaethon motif and the fall in financial careers / Hans Van Den Hooff ; 18.Melting the iceberg: unveiling financial frames / Marc Lenglet ; pt. III Capitalism --

Note continued: 19.Pathology of the capitalist spirit / David P. Levine ; 20.Trust and the global financial crisis / Douglas Kirsner ; 21.The financial crisis: exploring the dynamics of imagination and authority in a post-industrial world / Larry Hirschhorn ; 22.Profit as organizing meaning: the financial industry and the dynamic theory of multiple function / Ian S. Miller ; 23.Anti-oedipal dynamics in the sub-prime loan debacle: the case of a study by the Boston Federal Reserve Bank / Howard S. Schwartz ; 24.Capitalist imperatives and the democratic capacities' constraint: an examination of the interface of modern capitalist markets with the world's largest worker-owned corporation, the Mondragon Corporation of Spain / Laura Yu ; 25.Market masculinities and electronic trading / Simon Lilley ; Conclusion ; 26.Money, finances and capitalism: issues in organizational life for now and the future / Burkard Sievers.

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The current global financial crisis has raised awareness of the impact the world of finance has on the economy and the future of democracy. Following the crisis, this book aims at a deep understanding of the human psycho-social dynamics beneath the surface of the financial industry, its markets and institutions. It seeks to understand why the seemingly rational world of economic behavior, with its calculated models and predictions, at times goes horribly wrong.

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. Socio-analysis contributes to an awareness and understanding of underlying unconscious desires, fantasies and illusions that bring about the irrational inflation of faith and trust in the world of money, finance and capital(ism). 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 world in depth.

The aim of this book is to provide businesses, organizational consultants, students, researchers and interested persons more broadly with a detailed exploration of the psycho-social dynamics of the financial industry as it exists currently within the capitalist system. The contributors to this book come from Australia, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Sweden, The Netherlands, UK, and USA.