The Routledge Handbook to Critical Finance Studies

There has been an increasing interest in financial markets across sociology, history, anthropology, cultural studies and related disciplines over the past decades, with particular intensity since the 2007-8 crisis which prompted new analyses of the workings of financial markets and how 'scandals of Wall Street' might have huge societal ramifications. The sociologically inclined landscape of finance studies is characterized by different more or less well- established homogeneous camps, with more empirical, social studies of finance approaches on the one of the spectrum and more theoretical, often neo-Marxist approaches, on the other.

Yet alternative approaches are also gaining traction, including work that emphasizes the cultural homologies and interconnections with finance as well as work that, more broadly, is both empirically rigorous and theoretically ambitious. Importantly, across these various approaches to finance, a growing body of literature is taking shape which engages finance in a critical manner.

However, The term 'critical finance studies' remains largely unfocused and undefined. Against this backdrop, the key rationales of The Routledge Handbook to Critical Finance Studies are to provide a coherent notion of this emergent field and to demonstrate its analytical usefulness across a wide range of central aspects of contemporary finance.

As such, the volume will offer a comprehensive guide to students and academics on the field of Finance and Critical Finance Studies, Heterodox Economics, Accounting and related Management disciplines.