Conservatives Versus Wildcats - Simone Polillo

Conservatives Versus Wildcats

A Sociology of Financial Conflict

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
312 Seiten
2013
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8047-8509-9 (ISBN)
92,25 inkl. MwSt
For decades, the banking industry seemed to be a Swiss watch, quietly ticking along. But the recent financial crisis hints at the true nature of this sector. As Simone Polillo reveals in Conservatives Versus Wildcats, conflict is a driving force.


Conservative bankers strive to control money by allying themselves with political elites to restrict access to credit. Barriers to credit create social resistance, so rival bankers—wildcats—attempt to subvert the status quo by using money as a tool for breaking existing boundaries. For instance, wildcats may increase the circulation of existing currencies, incorporate new actors in financial markets, or produce altogether new financial instruments to create change.


Using examples from the economic and social histories of 19th-century America and Italy, two decentralized polities where challenges to sound banking originated from above and below, this book reveals the collective tactics that conservative bankers devise to legitimize strict boundaries around credit—and the transgressive strategies that wildcat bankers employ in their challenge to this restrictive stance.

Simone Polillo is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. With Brad Pasanek, he is co-editor of Beyond Liquidity: The Metaphor of Money in Financial Crisis.

Zusatzinfo 15 tables, 3 figures
Verlagsort Palo Alto
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 549 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Finanzierung
Betriebswirtschaft / Management Spezielle Betriebswirtschaftslehre Bankbetriebslehre
ISBN-10 0-8047-8509-0 / 0804785090
ISBN-13 978-0-8047-8509-9 / 9780804785099
Zustand Neuware
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