The Everyday Life of Global Finance
Saving and Borrowing in Anglo-America
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 8 May 2008
- ISBN 9780199236596
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages316 pages
- Size 241x165x30 mm
- Weight 625 g
- Language English
- Illustrations One illustration 0
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Short description:
In the US and the UK saving and borrowing routines have changed radically. Consumer borrowing has risen dramatically, there have been upheavals in pensions, crises of sub-prime mortgages, and an increased popularity of mutual funds. This book is an innovative contribution to the social scientific debates about these issues and contemporary finance.
MoreLong description:
Grounded in literature from the sociology of finance and international political economy, and informed by extensive empirical research, The Everyday Life of Global Finance explores the unprecedented relationships that now bind Anglo-American society with the financial markets. As mutual funds have increased in popularity and pension provision has been transformed, many more individuals and households have come to invest in stocks and shares. As consumer borrowing has risen dramatically and mortgage finance has embraced those deemed sub-prime, so the repayments of credit card holders and mortgagors have provided the basis for the issue and trading of bonds and other market instruments.
The Everyday Life of Global Finance is an ambitious and innovative contribution to our understanding of the contemporary financial world. It shows how financial market networks have come to extend well beyond Wall Street and the City of London, becoming embedded and embodied in routine saving and borrowing in the US and UK. Society's new-found relationships with the markets are also shown, however, to be marked by stark inequalities, manifest contradictions, and political dissent.
The credit crisis shows the importance of understanding how everyday saving and borrowing interact with global finance. Langley provides a thorough, sophisticated and timely analysis.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Networks, Power, Identity, and Dissent
Part I: Saving
From Thrift and Insurance to Everyday Investment
Pensions and Everyday Investment
The Uncertain Subjects of Everyday Investment
Socially Responsible Investment
Part II: Borrowing
The Boom in Everyday Borrowing
Inequalities in Everyday Borrowing
The Uncertain Subjects of Everyday Borrowing
Dissent in Everyday Borrowing
Conclusion
The Sub-Prime Crisis
