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After the Great Complacence : Financial Crisis and the Politics of Reform by Ewald Engelen; Ismail Ertürk; Julie Froud; Sukhdev Johal; Adam Leaver; Mick Moran; Adriana Nilsson; Karel Williams is a business book available to read on EtoBox.

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What is the relationship between the financial system and politics? In a democratic system, what kind of control should elected governments have over the financial markets? What policies should be implemented to regulate them? What is the role played by different elites - financial, technocratic, and political - in the operation and regulation of the financial system? And what role should citizens, investors, and savers play? These are some of the questions addressed in this challenging analysis of the particular features of the contemporary capitalist economy in Britain, the USA, and Western Europe. The authors argue that the causes of the financial crisis lay in the bricolage and innovation in financial markets, resulting in long chains and circuits of transactions and instruments that enabled bankers to earn fees, but which did not sufficiently take into account system risk, uncertainty, and unintended consequences. In the wake of the crisis, the authors argue that social scientists, governments, and citizens need to re-engage with the political dimensions of financial markets. This book offers a controversial and accessible exploration of the disorders of our financial capitali

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Author

Ewald Engelen; Ismail Ertürk; Julie Froud; Sukhdev Johal; Adam Leaver; Mick Moran; Adriana Nilsson; Karel Williams

Publisher

OUP Oxford

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780191731150

Category

business

Subjects

Political Science, Finance, Economics

Rating

3.67 / 5 (8 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13