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Guest editors' introduction - Financial subjects: culture and materiality (2012)
Journal Article
Langley, P., & Leyshon, A. (2012). Guest editors' introduction - Financial subjects: culture and materiality. Journal of Cultural Economy, 5(4), 369-373. https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2012.703146

The social identity of professional financiers is a relatively long-standing concern of social scientists. Consider, for example, the ‘gentlemanly capitalists’ of the City of London’s investment banks (Augar 2000; Cain & Hopkins 1986, 1987), and the... Read More about Guest editors' introduction - Financial subjects: culture and materiality.

Putting Humpty Dumpty Back Together Again: Financialisation and the Management of the Subprime Mortgage Crisis (2012)
Journal Article
Chima, O., & Langley, P. (2012). Putting Humpty Dumpty Back Together Again: Financialisation and the Management of the Subprime Mortgage Crisis. Global Society, 26(4), 409-427. https://doi.org/10.1080/13600826.2012.710595

The subprime mortgage debacle in the USA and the subsequent global credit crunch provoked a wide range of crisis management responses in different national settings. Such interventions are typically figured as the sovereign state coming to the rescue... Read More about Putting Humpty Dumpty Back Together Again: Financialisation and the Management of the Subprime Mortgage Crisis.

Remaking retirement investors: behavioural economics and occupational pension funds in the UK and USA (2012)
Journal Article
Langley, P., & Leaver, A. (2012). Remaking retirement investors: behavioural economics and occupational pension funds in the UK and USA. Journal of Cultural Economy, 5(4), 473-488. https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2012.691893

Summoned up within the defined-contribution (DC) plans that now predominate in the UK and USA, the financial subject of the retirement investor is identified by behavioural economics as the crucial problem to be solved in present-day occupational pen... Read More about Remaking retirement investors: behavioural economics and occupational pension funds in the UK and USA.