金融
结构性改革 Douban
★ 8.7 (14 ratings) author: 黄奇帆 publishing house: 中信出版社 2020 - 6
恰逢百年未有之大变局,经济转型发展、中美贸易摩擦、新冠疫情暴发等问题交相叠加,无不考验着我国面对复杂问题的智慧和勇气,供给侧结构性改革的重要性与紧迫性空前凸显。这本书从基础性、结构性、机制性、制度性等多个维度,深入剖析我国供给侧关键矛盾并对症下药。
全书一共七章。第一章详解如何紧抓供给侧结构性改革主线;第二章聚焦去杠杆与金融风险防范;第三章解读新时代下我国资本市场高质量发展之路;第四章讲述“数字化”如何重塑经济社会生态;第五章对房地产长效调控机制开出药方,并预判今后十年房地产行业六大趋势;第六章着眼于国有企业资本运作与地方政府营商环境改善;第七章阐释新局面、新特征下,我国对国际形势与中美关系的应对之道,深入剖析“双循环”新格局。
Capitalizing on Crisis Douban
author: Greta R. Krippner publishing house: Harvard University Press 2012 - 9
In the context of the recent financial crisis, the extent to which the U.S. economy has become dependent on financial activities has been made abundantly clear. In "Capitalizing on Crisis", Greta Krippner traces the longer-term historical evolution that made the rise of finance possible, arguing that this development rested on a broader transformation of the U.S. economy than is suggested by the current preoccupation with financial speculation. Krippner argues that state policies that created conditions conducive to financialization allowed the state to avoid a series of economic, social, and political dilemmas that confronted policymakers as postwar prosperity stalled beginning in the late 1960s and 1970s. In this regard, the financialization of the economy was not a deliberate outcome sought by policymakers, but rather an inadvertent result of the state's attempts to solve other problems. The book focuses on deregulation of financial markets during the 1970s and 1980s, encouragement of foreign capital into the U.S. economy in the context of large fiscal imbalances in the early 1980s, and changes in monetary policy following the shift to high interest rates in 1979. Exhaustively researched, the book brings extensive new empirical evidence to bear on debates regarding recent developments in financial markets and the broader turn to the market that has characterized U.S. society over the last several decades.
June 11, 2020 read
我觉得挺好啊,博论写成这样真的很牛逼了,写作方式也没那么难看嘛……就是我自己宏观经济知识储备不够不足以评判。
社会学 经济 政治 金融 美国
An Engine, Not a Camera Douban
author: Donald MacKenzie publishing house: The MIT Press 2006 - 5
In An Engine, Not a Camera, Donald MacKenzie argues that the emergence of modern economic theories of finance affected financial markets in fundamental ways. These new, Nobel Prize-winning theories, based on elegant mathematical models of markets, were not simply external analyses but intrinsic parts of economic processes. <br /> <br /> Paraphrasing Milton Friedman, MacKenzie says that economic models are an engine of inquiry rather than a camera to reproduce empirical facts. More than that, the emergence of an authoritative theory of financial markets altered those markets fundamentally. For example, in 1970, there was almost no trading in financial derivatives such as "futures." By June of 2004, derivatives contracts totaling $273 trillion were outstanding worldwide. MacKenzie suggests that this growth could never have happened without the development of theories that gave derivatives legitimacy and explained their complexities. <br /> <br /> MacKenzie examines the role played by finance theory in the two most serious crises to hit the world&rsquo;s financial markets in recent years: the stock market crash of 1987 and the market turmoil that engulfed the hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management in 1998. He also looks at finance theory that is somewhat beyond the mainstream--chaos theorist Benoit Mandelbrot&rsquo;s model of “wild” randomness. MacKenzie&rsquo;s pioneering work in the social studies of finance will interest anyone who wants to understand how America&rsquo;s financial markets have grown into their current form.
June 9, 2020 read
关于 performativity 的论点在其他地方已经看了,剩下的内容看的有点头昏 not a big fan
STS 金融 经济 社会学 英国
Creditworthy Douban
author: Josh Lauer publishing house: Columbia University Press 2017 - 7
The first consumer credit bureaus appeared in the 1870s and quickly amassed huge archives of deeply personal information. Today, the three leading credit bureaus are among the most powerful institutions in modern life—yet we know almost nothing about them. Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion are multi-billion-dollar corporations that track our movements, spending behavior, and financial status. This data is used to predict our riskiness as borrowers and to judge our trustworthiness and value in a broad array of contexts, from insurance and marketing to employment and housing.
In Creditworthy, the first comprehensive history of this crucial American institution, Josh Lauer explores the evolution of credit reporting from its nineteenth-century origins to the rise of the modern consumer data industry. By revealing the sophistication of early credit reporting networks, Creditworthy highlights the leading role that commercial surveillance has played—ahead of state surveillance systems—in monitoring the economic lives of Americans. Lauer charts how credit reporting grew from an industry that relied on personal knowledge of consumers to one that employs sophisticated algorithms to determine a person's trustworthiness. Ultimately, Lauer argues that by converting individual reputations into brief written reports—and, later, credit ratings and credit scores—credit bureaus did something more profound: they invented the modern concept of financial identity. Creditworthy reminds us that creditworthiness is never just about economic "facts." It is fundamentally concerned with—and determines—our social standing as an honest, reliable, profit-generating person.
April 15, 2020 read
就还好吧,算是本写的比较细碎的历史,没啥太大的理论贡献和讨论...
金融 历史 美国