Spiers, John Raymond, (born 30 Sept. 1941), Chairman: John Spiers Publishing Ltd, since 1988; Edward Everett Root Publishers Ltd, since 2015; Senior Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, since 2003; Professorial Research Fellow, Global Policy Institute, London Metropolitan University, since 2013

2014 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 862-864

Ten papers explore the importance of emotions in the study and understanding of finance and money. Papers discuss magic thinking and panic buttons in the callous financial transaction chains (Helena Flam); immoral panic and emotional operations in times of financial fragility (Alexandros-Andreas Kyrtsis); how European sovereign debt became the new subprime—the role of confidence in the European financial crisis, 2009–10 (Richard Swedberg); shame and stock market losses—the case of amateur investors in the United States (Brooke Harrington); the grammar of trust (Susan Shapiro); revisiting the credit theory of money and trust (Geoffrey Ingham); methodology in Max Weber's economic sociology—what place emotions in Roman agrarian history and today's finance sector? (Sam Whimster); states of disorder—new reflections on sociology's contribution to understanding financial booms and crises (Shaun Wilson and Peter McCarthy); “nicotine for protein”—culture and the emotions of hard trading in Japanese prisoner of war camps (Benjamin Manning); and the emotions of money—assessing betrayal and reform (Jocelyn Pixley). Pixley is Professorial Research Fellow with the Global Policy Institute at London Metropolitan University and Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Macquarie University.


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