塑造市场:华尔街的投机主义和抑制 英文原版 Making Markets
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作者Mitchel Y. Abolafia
出版社Harvard University Press
ISBN9780674006881
出版时间2001-10
印刷时间2001-10
印数1千册
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开本32开
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页数232页
字数1千字
定价324元
上书时间2024-11-25
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Paperback: 232 pages
Publisher: Harvard University Press; New Ed edition (30 Oct. 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0674006887
ISBN-13: 978-0674006881
Product Dimensions:15.6 x 1.5 x 23.5 cm
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In the wake of million-dollar scandals brought about by Michael Milken, Ivan Boesky and their like, Wall Street seems like the province of rampant individualism operating at the outermost extremes of self-interest and greed. But this, Mitchel Adolafia suggests, would be a case of missing the real culture of the Street for the characters who dominate the financial news. "Making Markets", an ethnography of Wall Street culture, offers a more complex picture of how the market and its denizens work. Not merely masses of individuals striving independently, markets appear here as socially constructed institutions in which the behaviour of traders is suspended in a web of customs, norms and structures of control. Within these structures we see the actions that led to the Drexel Burnham and Salomon Brothers debacles not as bizarre aberrations, but as mere exaggerations of behaviour accepted on the Street. Abolafia looks at three subcultures that co-exist in the world of Wall Street: the stock, bond and futures markets. Through interviews, anecdotes and the author's skilful analysis, we see how traders and New York Stock Exchange "specialists" negotiate the perpetual tension between short-term self-interest and long-term self-restraint that marks their respective communities - and how the temptation toward excess spurs market activity. We also see the complex relationship among those market communities - why, for instance, NYSE specialists resent the freedoms permitted over-the-counter bond traders and futures traders. "Making Markets" shows us that what propels Wall Street is not a fundamental human drive or instinct, but strategies enacted in the context of social relationships, cultural idioms and institutions - a cycle that moves between phases of unbridled self-interest and collective self-restraint.
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This is a great must-read. Abolafia's central thesis is that markets cannot be viewed simply as anonymous fora where nameless economic forces work their mysterious ways to determine equilibrium price-quantity outcomes. Instead, they are better seen as stages on which diverse groups of actors seek to further their own, often conflicting, interests...The view that markets are social constructs has a particularly significant consequence for understanding and reacting to the phenomenon of manipulation. Abolafia's view that manipulation 'arises out of a conflict between buyers and sellers where one side is pressing its advantage', rather than being either a legal definition or an economic phenomenon, is extremely convincing...It is impossibly infuriating that one's assumptions about how the financial world works should be overturned by a mere sociologist.--Ruben Lee "London Financial News "
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