An inside look at a Wall Street trading room and what this reveals about today's financial
system Debates about financial reform have led to the recognition that a healthy financial …

We often think of finance as a glamorous world, a place where investment bankers amass
huge profits in gleaming downtown skyscrapers. There's another side to finance, though …

Today's regime of financialized capitalism requires individuals to engage with financial
products and services to ensure their financial security and welfare. Within this regime …

Classic works in anthropology and sociology have essentialized formal capitalist credit and
their alternative forms, be they community-based or informal. The financialization of …

This book explores the global market for passports, delivering an analysis of citizenship's
commodification and how it is entrenched with social inequality. Through ethnography in the …

This article concerns itself with financial traders in Spain who have been diagnosed with
gambling disorder. It analyzes what I call the clinical economy of speculation, in which the …

This article investigates how commodification operates with reference to expertise, rather
than material objects. By drawing on the work of German management consultants, it …

Finanzmärkte nehmen in der Wirtschaftssoziologie eine Sonderstellung ein. Dies hat
einerseits damit zu tun, dass sich die Wirtschaftssoziologie, insbesondere seit Harrison …

This article analyzes nonprofessional trading in derivatives during the Great Spanish
Recession. It depicts playful engagements with speculative forms of credit and debt on the …

The aim of this thesis is to examine berraquera, a slang word from Colombia which means to
be strong, fight the odds, and thrive despite adversity, as a distinct form of development by …