How to Build a Stock Exchange: The Past, Present and Future of Finance

Why is finance so important? How do stock markets work and what do they really do? Most importantly, what might finance be and what could we expect from it? Exploring contemporary finance via the development of stock exchanges, markets and the links with states, Roscoe mingles historical and technical detail with humorous anecdotes and lively portraits of market participants. Deftly combining research and autobiographical vignettes, he offers a cautionary tale about the drive of financial markets towards expropriation, capture and exclusion. Positioning financial markets as central devices in the organization of the global economy, he includes contemporary concerns over inequality, climate emergency and (de)colonialism and concludes by wondering, in the market's own angst-filled voice, what the future for finance might be, and how we might get there.

Author: Philip Roscoe
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Published: 04/25/2023
Pages: 218
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.13h x 5.98w x 0.63d
ISBN13: 9781529224320
ISBN10: 1529224322
BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Finance | General
- Business & Economics | Free Enterprise & Capitalism
- Business & Economics | Industries | Financial Services

About the Author
Philip Roscoe is Reader in Management at the University of St Andrews. His research takes a sociological approach to markets and finance. A former journalist, he was one of the first BBC Radio 3's New Generation Thinkers.