Binding: Hardcover
Description: What is the relationship between the financial system and politics? In a democratic system what kind of control should elected governments have over the financial markets? What policies should be implemented to regulate them? What is the role played by different elites - financial technocratic and political - in the operation and regulation of the financial system? And what role should citizens investors and savers play? These are some of the questions addressed in this challenging analysis of the particular features of the contemporary capitalist economy in Britain the US a and Western Europe. The authors argue that the causes of the financial crisis lay in the bricolage and innovation in financial markets resulting in long chains and circuits of transactions and instruments that enabled bankers to earn fees but which did not sufficiently take into account system risk uncertainty and unintended consequences. In the wake of the crisis the authors argue that social scientists governments and citizens need to re - engage with the political dimensions of financial markets. This book offers a controversial and accessible exploration of the disorders of our financial capitalism and its justifications. With an innovative emphasis on the economically 'undisclosed and the political 'mystifying' it combines technical understanding of finance cultural analysis and al political account of interests and institutions.
Title: After The Great Complacence Financial Crisis And The Politics Of Reform
Author(s): Williams Karel (Centre For Research In Socio - Cultural Change And Manchester Business School University Of Manchester)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780199589081
Pages: 296 Pages
Publication Date: 11/29/2011
Category: Business Innovation