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A Cultural History of Finance
The world of finance is again undergoing crisis and transformation. This book provides a new perspective on finance through the prism of popular and formal culture and examines fascination and repulsion toward money, the role of governments and individuals in financial crises and how the Crisis of 2008, like others since 1720, repeat the same patterns of enthusiasm, greed, culpability, revulsion, reform and recovery.
The book explores the political and socio-economic factors which determine fallibility and resilience in financial cultures, periods of crisis, transition and recovery based on cyclical rather than linear progression. Examining the roots of financial capitalism, in Europe and the United States and its corollary development in Asia, Russia and emerging markets proves that cultural and psychosocial reactions to financial success, endeavor and calamity transcend specific periods or events. The book allows the reader to discover parallel and intersecting reactions, controversies and resolutions in the cultural history of financial markets and institutions.
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Rationale, structure and methodology of a French language program for American bankers and traders
Die fuenftgroesste Bank der Welt, Crédit Lyonnais, hat fuer die Angestellten ihrer New Yorker Filiale ein fachsprachliches Ausbildungsprogramm aufgelegt. Der kontinuierliche Besuch eines einmal belegten Kurses ist obligatorisch, das Ergebnis wird Bestandteil der Personalakten. Die Autorin zeigt in ihrem Erfahrungsbericht, mit welchen Schwierigkeiten ein Sprachlehrer zu kaempfen hat, der seinen Beruf in einer derart ungewohnten Umgebung, mit ungewohnter Klientel und mit neuen Materialien ausueben muss.
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A cultural history of finance
This book demonstrates how finance is affected by key political and social forces and cultural norms, and shows how they have determined the progression, development, destruction and renewal of financial life in Europe, Russia and the United States
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World bankers
The analysis by Alfred Chandler, Harvard business historian, of administrative and managerial structures in industrial capitalism characterized the British model as “personal,” the Germany model as “cooperative,” and the American model as “competitive.” Within this pantheon, the French model’s unique cyclical private–public relationship should be added and defined as ambivalent. The role of international finance, esoteric in nature, conducted among a small interrelated group of bankers, able to conjure vast amounts of capital, and to influence governments in the process, persisted, and reinforced conspiracy theories and accusations of disloyalty to the nation. Less prevalent in Britain, the image of the banker as foreign or foreigner permeated French literature. The concept of a corporate identity, of a set of behavioral and social criteria applied to an institution rather than a family or a state, took shape as a byproduct of capitalism.
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Introduction
This chapter focuses on Europe and subsequently on the United States as “the breeding ground” of modern world financial history, with references to cultural and commercial exchanges between former Ottoman, Asian, and Western nations and empires. Despite the sophistication of new quantitative methods and instruments, and the transformational impact of technology, financial decision makers and institutions are defined by what Niall Ferguson called the “cash nexus,” the forces at work in the interstices of power and money. Although the public, press, media, graduate and business school programs are fascinated by finance, financial instruments, operations and crisis, financial history and the culture of finance are too often relegated to an introductory chapter in a finance textbook or an elective course deemed “soft science.” There are excellent new studies in economic and business history, but few works specifically devoted to the cultural dimension of contemporary finance, banking and investment: the interplay between history, economics and culture.
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Dead gages, naked debentures
The language of finance, rife with moral innuendo, often associated with physical activity, hedging, hiding, manipulating and transacting, reflects the dynamism and the ambivalence toward all financial activity. Financial terminology followed the evolution and geo-economic shifts of commerce, money exchange, and banking operations, from Italy to the Low Countries to its permanent home in England after 1600. As financial principles grew increasingly complex, computational, and as technology compressed time and human contact, language increasingly integrated mathematical computer terminology. The development of the printing press in Germany coincided with the creation of minting and coining presses across Europe. By the mid-fifteenth century French and English currency was standardized, at least nominally, public banks were established in Italy, and real estate speculation expanded in the form of land bonds. In consequence, relationships between money in its function as a medium of exchange and the commodities that it purchased became increasingly indirect.
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