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By dk.au on October 15, 2008
Tony Jones asked Will Hutton last night whether the interbank credit market was “run by cowboys or run by reputable people?” But between these two moral poles is enormous material and cultural complexity: If a bank wants to borrow money, [...]
Posted in Markets, Sociology, Technology | Tagged credit crunch, Donald Mackenzie, Interbank Lending, LIBOR, sociology of finance, Tony Jones, Will Hutton |
By dk.au on September 23, 2008
Markets are, in very important ways, metaphors. And three metaphors have really stuck out in my mind over the past few days. The first comes from the inimitable Daniel Beunza, who spent 34 months in a participant-observation study of an [...]
Posted in Ethics, Markets | Tagged daniel beunza, deleuze, end of capitalism, metaphors, orthodox economics, Sociology, sociology of finance, theory |
By dk.au on September 16, 2008
Whether exuberant or pessimistic, market expectations tend to gather momentum: “It is a chicken-and-egg issue,” said Tanya Azarchs, an analyst at S&P. “When Lehman looks as if it’s having trouble raising capital, shares fall. When shares fall, raising capital by [...]
Posted in Consumerism, Disasters, Government, Markets, Media, Policy | Tagged AIG, bailouts, corporate goverance, federal reserve, Insurance, Lehman bailout, neoliberalism, sociology of finance, sociology of markets, subprime crisis |
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