Finance at Work

"Contents List of Figures List of Tables Notes on Contributors Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction: Financiers at work, financialisation on the march Valérie Boussard PART I The boundaries of finance: Exclusionary process, social closure and inner regulation Introduction: Interrogating financialization as an analytic Karen Ho Chapter 1 Let’s make the company a bunch of figures: Professional representations in mergers and acquisitions firms Valérie Boussard and Marie-Anne Dujarier Chapter 2 Matching the market: Calibration and the working practices of quants Taylor Spears Chapter 3 Buying it: Financialisation through socialisation Natascha van der Zwan Chapter 4 Financial logic and bankers’ institutional entrepreneurship: The politics of the ""zombies"" debate in bankruptcy proceedings at the Commercial Court of Paris (2000–2005) Emmanuel Lazega, Lise Mounier and Sylvan Lemaire PART II Passing through boundaries: Financiers as intermediaries in conversion to financial logics Introduction: Financialising economic activities Donald MacKenzie Chapter 5 The financialization of the private wealth of farmers: Is it the work of the banks? Gilles Laferté and Abdoul Diallo Chapter 6 Financial backlash: When local bankers face social protest Quentin Ravelli Chapter 7 The assetisation of South African farmland: The role of finance and brokers Antoine Ducastel and Ward Anseeuw PART III Crossing boundaries: Individual careers as vehicles for financialisation Introduction: The financialisation of finance: The transformation of the French financial eli"