Long overlooked in histories of finance, women played an essential role in areas such as banking and the stock market during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet their presence sparked ongoing controversy. Hetty Green's golden touch brought her millions, but sh…
"A sweeping history that tracks the development of trade and industry across the world, from Ancient Rome to today. From the development of international trade fairs in the twelfth century to the innovations made in China, India, and the Arab world, it turns out that historical …
Ahmad Alkhamees defines Creative Shari?ah compliance as compliance with the letter but not the objectives of Shari?ah. In recent years, Islamic finance industry practises have come under scrutiny, with strong critiques levelled against many institutions that claim to provide Sha…
"The financial crisis and the recession that followed caught many people off guard, including experts in the financial sector whose jobs involve predicting market fluctuations. Financial analysis offices in most international banks are supposed to forecast the rise or fall of st…
Meeting the predictors -- The problem with forecasting in economic theory -- Inside Swiss banking -- Among financial analysts -- Intrinsic value, market value, and the search for information -- The construction of an investment narrative -- The politics of circulating narratives…
Why do financial analysts exist in the market? 'Stories of Capitalism' seeks to find an anthropological explanation to a question economists have failed to answer. Building on recent developments in anthropology and the social studies of finance, it provides the first full-scale…
"The financial crisis and the recession that followed caught many people off guard, including experts in the financial sector whose jobs involve predicting market fluctuations. Financial analysis offices in most international banks are supposed to forecast the rise or fall of st…
"The 2007-08 credit crisis and the long recession that followed brutally exposed the economic and social costs of financialization. Understanding what lay behind these events, the rise of 'fictitious capital' and its opaque logic, is crucial to grasping the social and political …
"The 2007-08 credit crisis and the long recession that followed brutally exposed the economic and social costs of financialization ... Using comparative data covering the last four decades, Durand examines the relationship between trends such as the rise in private and public de…
The Global Financial Crisis made its first appearance in Britain towards the end of 2007 with the failure of the Northern Rock Bank. It then reached an unparalleled intensity a year later when the government was forced to intervene to prevent the collapse of Lloyds/HBOS and RBS/…
by Tan, James
fromOxford studies in early empires
"In the first study of fiscal sociology in the Roman Republic, James Tan argues that much of Roman politics was defined by changes in the fiscal system. Tan offers a new conception of the Roman Republic by showing that imperial profits freed the elite from dependence on citizen …
"Machine learning (ML) is changing virtually every aspect of our lives. Today ML algorithms accomplish tasks that until recently only expert humans could perform. As it relates to finance, this is the most exciting time to adopt a disruptive technology that will transform how ev…
"Machine learning (ML) is changing virtually every aspect of our lives. Today ML algorithms accomplish tasks that until recently only expert humans could perform. As it relates to finance, this is the most exciting time to adopt a disruptive technology that will transform how ev…
Intro -- Advances in Financial Machine Learning -- Contents -- About the Author -- Preamble -- 1 Financial Machine Learning as a Distinct Subject -- 1.1 Motivation -- 1.2 The Main Reason Financial Machine Learning Projects Usually Fail -- 1.2.1 The Sisyphus Paradigm -- 1.2.2 The…
