Ewald Engelen, Ismail Ertürk, Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver, Mick Moran, Adriana Nilsson, Karel Williams

After the Great Complacence

Financial Crisis and the Politics of Reform

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Produktbeschreibung

This book provides an accessible cultural and political analysis of how our disorderly and financialized system of capitalism works, what led to the financial crisis that began in 2007, the policy debates about reform, and why democratic control is difficult after the events of 2008.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 245mm x 161mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 586g
• ISBN-13: 9780199589081
• ISBN-10: 0199589089
• Artikelnr.: 33718890

Autorenporträt

This book is written by an interdisciplinary team based at the ESRC funded Centre for Research on Socio Cultural change at the University of Manchester. The authors are collectively best known for their pioneering work on financialization including team written books such as J. Froud et al, Financialization and Strategy (2006), I Ertürk et al, Financialization at Work (2008) and M. Savage and K. Williams, Elites Remembered (2008). Several of the authors also publish individually within their disciplines with books such as M. Moran, The British Regulatory State (2007) and Business, Politics, and Society (2009). Ewald Engelen is Professor of Financial Geography at the University of Amsterdam. Ismail Ertürk is Senior Lecturer in Innovation, Management, and Policy at the Manchester Business School Julie Froud is Professor of Financial Innovation at Manchester Business School Sukhdev Johal is Reader in Strategy and Business Analysis, Royal Holloway Adam Leaver is Lecturer in Business Analysis, Manchester Business School Michael Moran is WJM MacKenzie Professor, the University of Manchester Adriana Nilsson, Post Doctoral Fellow, Manchester Business School Karel Williams, Professor of Accounting and Political Economy, Manchester Business School

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: After the Great Complacence: the Challenge of the Undisclosed and
the Mystified
* Section I: Not as it seems : Financial Innovation and the Undisclosed
* 2: Derivatives: Conjuncture, Bricolage, and Circuits
* 3: Hedge Funds and Private Equity as War Machines
* 4: Banking for Themselves: the Transaction Generating Machine
* Section 2: Beyond Democratic Control? Mystified Politics Before and
After the Crisis
* 5: Mystification Undermines Regulation Before 2007
* 6: Closure: Distributive Coalition vs. Democratic Opening
* 7: In Charge? Political Classes and Technocratic Elites
* Conclusion
* 8: What is To Be Done? Mobilising for Simpler, Sustainable Finance