After the Great Complacence - Financial Crisis and the Politics of Reform (Hardcover, New)

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 USA, 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.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2011
First published:	November 2011
Authors:	Ewald Engelen • Ismail Erturk • Julie Froud • Sukhdev Johal • Adam Leaver • Mick Moran • Adriana Nilsson • Karel Williams
Dimensions:	236 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	296
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-958908-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Public administration Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Political economy Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Financial crises & disasters Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Business strategy
LSN:	0-19-958908-9
Barcode:	9780199589081

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