The sociology of financial markets / edited by Karin Knorr Cetina and Alex Preda, editions.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Karin Knorr Cetina, Alex Preda -- SECTION I. INSIDE FINANCIAL MARKETS -- The embeddedness of electronic markets: the case of global capital markets / Saskia Sassen -- How are global markets global? The architecture of a flow world / Karin Knorr Cetina -- How a superportfolio emerges: long-term capital management and the sociology of arbitrage / Donald MacKenzie -- How to recognize opportunities: heterarchical search in a trading room / Daniel Beunza, David Stark -- Emotions on the trading floor: social and symbolic expressions / Jean-Pierre Hassoun -- Women in financial services: fiction and more fiction / Barbara Czarniawska -- SECTION II. THE AGE OF THE INVESTOR -- The investor as a cultural figure of global capitalism / Alex Preda -- The values and beliefs of European investors / Werner De Bondt -- Conflicts of interests in the US brokerage industry / Richard Swedberg -- SECTION III. FINANCE AND GOVERNANCE -- Interpretive politics at the Federal Reserve / Mitchel Y. Abolafia -- The return of bureaucracy: managing dispersed knowledge in global finance / Gordon L. Clark, Nigel Thrift -- Enterprise risk management and the organization of uncertainty in financial institutions / Michael Power -- Managing investors: how financial markets reshaped the American firm / Dirk Zorn ... [and others] -- Nothing but net? Networks and status in corporate governance / Gerald Davis, Gregory Robbins.