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Guest editors' introduction - Financial subjects: culture and materiality

Langley, P.; Leyshon, A.

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A. Leyshon



Abstract

The social identity of professional financiers is a relatively long-standing concern of social scientists. Consider, for example, the ‘gentlemanly capitalists’ of the City of London’s investment banks (Augar 2000; Cain & Hopkins 1986, 1987), and the private banking families that bestrode the ‘capitals of capital’ in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe (Cassis 2005). But, across disciplines and over the last two decades or so, a growing literature has come to ascribe analytical significance to the making of financial subjects in the manufacture of an array of professional and popular financial markets. The first of three main themes which the papers in this Special Issue elucidate upon, then, is the often complex ways in which multiple financial subjects are summoned-up and assembled in the cultural and material production of contemporary financial markets.

Citation

Langley, P., & Leyshon, A. (2012). Guest editors' introduction - Financial subjects: culture and materiality. Journal of Cultural Economy, 5(4), 369-373. https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2012.703146

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Jan 1, 2012
Deposit Date Feb 20, 2013
Publicly Available Date Sep 6, 2013
Journal Journal of Cultural Economy
Print ISSN 1753-0350
Electronic ISSN 1753-0369
Publisher Taylor and Francis Group
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 5
Issue 4
Pages 369-373
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2012.703146

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