The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Finance

Recent years have seen a surge of interest in the workings of financial institutions and financial markets beyond the discipline of economics, which has been accelerated by the financial crisis of the early twenty-first century. The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Finance brings together twenty-nine chapters, written by scholars of international repute from Europe, North America, and Asia, to provide comprehensive coverage on a variety of topics related to the role of finance in a globalized world, and its historical development. Topics include global institutions of modern finance, types of actors involved in financial transactions and supporting technologies, mortgage markets, rating agencies, and the role of financial economics. Particular attention is given to financial crises, which are discussed in a special section, as well as to alternative forms of finance, including Islamic finance and the rise of China. The Handbook will be an indispensable tool for academics, researchers, and students of contemporary finance and economic sociology, and will serve as a reference point for the expanding international community of scholars researching these areas from a broadly-defined sociological perspective. Contributors to this volume - Mitchel Abolafia, SUNY/ Albany Daniel Beunza, LSE Bruce Carruthers, Northwestern University Erica Coslor, University of Chicago Gerald Davis, University of Michigan Frank Dobbin, Harvard University Neil Fligstein, University of California, Berkeley Shaun French, University of Nottingham Bai Gao, Duke University Adam Goldstein, University of California, Berkeley Iain Hardie, University of Edinburgh Brooke Harrington, Max Planck Institute Cologne Mark Jacobs, George Mason University Franck Jovanovic, Universite de Quebec a Montreal Jiwook Jung, Harvard University Karin Knorr Cetina, University of Chicago Bruce Kogut, Columbia University Andrew Leyshon, University of Nottingham Donald MacKenzie, University of Edinburgh Josephine Maltby, York University Bill Maurer, UC Irvine Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, University of Edinburgh Aaron Z. Pitluck, Illinois State University Martha Poon, UCSD Michael Power, LSE Alex Preda, University of Edinburgh Janette Rutterford, Open University Saskia Sassen, Columbia University Lucia Siu, Lingnan University Hong Kong Charles Smith, CUNY David Stark, Columbia University Richard Swedberg, Cornell University Olav Velthuis, University of Amsterdam Leon Wansleben, University of Konstanz Caitlin Zaloom, New York University Ezra Zuckerman, MIT