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Title: Emotions in finance : distrust and uncertainty in global markets
Publisher: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press
Date: 2004
Author/Creator: Pixley, Jocelyn
Description: Emotions in Finance examines the views of experienced elites in the international financial world. It argues the current financial era is driven by a utopianism - a hope - that the future can be collapsed into the present. It points out policy implications of this short-term view at the unstable peak of global finance." "This book provides a timely account of the influence of emotion and speculation on the world's increasingly volatile financial sector. The author includes absorbing interview material from public and private bankers in the United States, UK and Australia.
Description: Global markets or social relations of money -- Emotion in the kingdom of rationality -- The financial media as institutional trust agencies -- Emotions in the boardroom -- Credibility and confidence in the central banks -- Hierarchies of trust -- Overwhelmed by numbers -- The time utopia in finance -- The implications: emotions and rationality.
Subject Keyword: Finance--Psychological aspects
Subject Keyword: Trust--Economic aspects
Subject Keyword: Uncertainty
Subject Keyword: Economic forecasting--Psychological aspects
Subject Keyword: Risk assessment--Psychological aspects
Subject Keyword: Risk management
Resource Type: book
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Sociology

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/87789
Identifier: ISBN:052182785X
Identifier: mq-rm-2009008586
Language: eng

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