Towards a Cognitive Mode in Global Finance? (Paperback, 1st)

Contents Preface and Acknowledgements 7 Introduction 9 Torsten Strulik Part 1: Theoretical Perspectives on Knowledge and Finance The Autonomy of the Financial System: Symbolic Coupling and the Language of Capital 36 Helmut Willke On the Unity and Difference of Finance and the Economy: Investigations for a New Sociology of Money 70 Hanno Pahl An Institutional Approach to the Politics of Global Finance 104 Timothy J. Sinclair Part 2: Cultures and Techniques of a Cognitive Mode How Financial Numbers are Symptomatic 132 Hendrik Vollmer Cultures of Economic Calculation 156 Herbert Kalthoff Cognitive Shifts in Regulation: The Role of Ignorance in the Regulatory Field of Accounting 180 Alexandra Hessling Part 3: The Importance of Private Expertise in Financial Governance The Role of Policy Communities in Global Financial Governance: A Critical Examination of the Group of Thirty 213 Eleni Tsingou Rating Agencies, Ignorance and the Knowledge-Based Production of System Trust 239 Torsten Strulik Part 4: Basel II - A Cognitive Turn in Banking Regulation? Governance without Politics? Administration and Politics in the Basel II Process 259 Boris Holzer Making Use of Cognitive Standards: On the Logic of a New Mode of Governance in Global Finance 279 Matthias Kussin/Sven Kette Authors 304