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Record Nr.

UNINA9910831852303321

Titolo

The Routledge handbook of critical finance studies / / edited by Christian Borch and Robert Wosnitzer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Routledge, , 2021

ISBN

1-351-62715-5

1-315-11425-9

1-351-62716-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (443 pages)

Collana

Routledge International Handbooks

Disciplina

332

Soggetti

Finance

Critical theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: What is Critical Finance Studies? -- Part I: Key Concepts -- 1 Liquidity -- 2 Volatility -- 3 Speculation -- 4 Financial Noise -- 5 Risk and Arbitrage -- Part II: Central Actors and Institutions -- 6 Financial Regulation -- 7 Central Banking -- 8 Shadow Banking and the Rise of Global Debt -- 9 Financial Intermediaries -- 10 Private Equity -- 11 Financial Models -- 12 High-Frequency Trading -- Part III: Financialization -- 13 The Financialized State -- 14 The Financialization of Everyday Life -- 15 Consumer Credit and Credit Assessment -- 16 Critical Financial Geography -- 17 Fin-Tech -- 18 Finance Fiction -- 19 Art, Markets, and Finance -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"The term 'critical finance studies' remains largely unfocused and undefined. Against this backdrop, the key rationales of The Routledge Handbook to Critical Finance Studies are to provide a coherent notion of this emergent field and to demonstrate its analytical usefulness across a wide range of central aspects of contemporary finance"--