The Sociology of Financial Markets

Table of contents

• The Sociology of Financial Markets i
• Title Page iii
• Acknowledgements v
• Contents vii
• List of Figures ix
• List of Tables x
• List of Contributors xi
• Introduction 1
• Section I - Inside Financial Markets 15
• 1: The Embeddedness of Electronic Markets: the Case of Global Capital Markets 17
• 2: How Are Global Markets Global? the Architecture of a Flow World 38
• 3: How a Superportfolio Emerges: Long-Term Capital Management and the Sociology of Arbitrage 62
• 4: How to Recognize Opportunities: Heterarchical Search in a Trading Room 84
• 5: Emotions on the Trading Floor: Social and Symbolic Expressions 102
• 6: Women in Financial Services: Fiction and More Fiction 121
• Section II - The Age of the Investor 139
• 7: The Investor as a Cultural Figure of Global Capitalism 141
• 8: The Values and Beliefs of European Investors 163
• 9: Conflicts of Interests in the Us Brokerage Industry 187
• Section III - Finance and Governance 205
• 10: Interpretive Politics at the Federal Reserve 207
• 11: The Return of Bureaucracy: Managing Dispersed Knowledge in Global Finance 229
• 12: Enterprise Risk Management and the Organization of Uncertainty in Financial Institutions 250
• 13: Managing Investors: How Financial Markets Reshaped the American Firm 269
• 14: Nothing but Net? Networks and Status in Corporate Governance 290
• Index 313

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