1. Reputation, Emotion and the Market
Saïd Business School, Oxford: 19-20th March, 2010
Co-sponsored by Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation
Programme Organisers: Peter Knight and Chris McKenna
- What role did seemingly non-economic factors such as reputation, trust and confidence play in shaping conceptualisations of the market and economic behaviour - both individual and corporate - in the long nineteenth century in America?
- Are there differences in the operation of trust and confidence in corporate capitalism in the US and elsewhere? How have these changed over time?
- Were market panics caused by "irrational exuberance," aberrations in the otherwise smooth functioning of the market, or were they central to its operation?
- Were scandal, fraud and corruption mere sideshows, or were they structurally significant elements?
- How did Americans account for confidence trickery, counterfeiting, and corruption in the formation of American capitalism?
- What is the role of cultural history in business/financial history and vice versa? What can literary studies teach us about business/financial history, and what can we learn from economic anthropology, economic sociology and behavioural economics?
- What can history teach us about the present crisis?
Note to Participants: The material to read for the Symposium Reading Group is Karl Marx's Kapital Vol. III, chapters 23, 27 and 29-32 inclusive and Georg Simmel's The Philosophy of Money, chapter 1.
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