"Written under the shadow of the global financial crisis, this book charts the current shape of global finance and tries to explain why the crisis arose - and what can be done about it. Economics alone cannot fully explain how global finance operates, and why it is so crisis prone. Global...

1. Global finance -- 2. Global finance : what it is and how it operates -- 3. The history and social geography of global finance -- 4. The social actors in global finance : market culture and financial knowledge -- 5. Society and finance : an alternative theoretical approach -- 6. Global finance...