| Edition |
2nd ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Finance professional collection
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| Summary |
"Money is a promise with future benefits or dangers that can never, because unknowable, be calculated. The financial sector is driven to beat this uncertainty by speculating on whether prices will rise or fall. No matter how often the folly of this behaviour is demonstrated through crisis after crisis, this attempt to defeat uncertainty persists. Yet uncertainty is unavoidable. Squeezed in one place, it emerges in another. Based on extensive interviews with leading actors in the financial markets, this book argues that the only way to face uncertainty is with emotions and values. It presents an original explanation of how booms and busts arise from internal disputes over trust between financial corporations. Just as the first edition warned prophetically of the dangers of excessive faith in the rationality of financial market behaviour, this new edition provides a sociological explanation of how this contributed to the recent financial crisis"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Modern money, modern conflicts -- Corporate suspicion in the kingdom of rationality -- Financial press as trust agencies -- Required distrust and the onus of a bonus -- Managing credibility in central banks -- Hierarchies of distrust from trust to bust -- Overwhelmed by numbers -- The time-utopia in finance -- Taming the god of opportunism. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Finance -- Psychological aspects.
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Finance -- Psychological aspects. |
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Finance. |
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Trust -- Economic aspects.
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Trust. |
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Uncertainty.
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Uncertainty. |
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Economic forecasting -- Psychological aspects.
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Economic forecasting. |
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Psychological aspects. |
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Risk assessment -- Psychological aspects.
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Risk assessment. |
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Risk management.
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Risk management. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Pixley, Jocelyn, 1947- Emotions in finance. 2nd ed. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012 9781107633377 (DLC) 2012006049 (OCoLC)777948444 |
| ISBN |
9781139424349 (electronic book) |
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1139424343 (electronic book) |
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9781139084567 (electronic book) |
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1139084569 (electronic book) |
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9786613662200 |
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6613662208 |
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9781107633377 |
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1107633370 |
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9781139420259 |
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1139422308 |
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9781139422307 |
| Standard No. |
9786613662200 |
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ebr10568347 |
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