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Acknowledgements | p. vii |
List of Figures | p. ix |
List of Tables | p. xi |
List of Abbreviations | p. xiii |
Introduction: Framing the Crisis: Accident, Fiasco, or Debacle? | p. 1 |
The a priori of accident | p. 2 |
Not a fiasco | p. 6 |
Elite debacle and hubris | p. 9 |
After the Great Complacence | p. 12 |
The Great Complacence: Bernanke's story | p. 15 |
Story-driven capitalisms: elites and narrative exchange | p. 21 |
Debacle: privatization of gains and socialization of losses | p. 27 |
Apparatus: business models and agendas | p. 32 |
Financial Innovation or Bricolage? | p. 37 |
Financial innovation and the promises of securitization | p. 39 |
Framework, conjuncture, and bricolage | p. 48 |
The concentration of risk | p. 61 |
Play it again | p. 63 |
Notes on Figure 2.6 | p. 64 |
'Alternative Investment' or Nomadic War Machine? | p. 66 |
Alternative investment funds (in a new conjuncture) | p. 68 |
War machines: 'making the positions work' | p. 77 |
Banks Misunderstood | p. 97 |
Academic understanding: banks as intermediaries? | p. 99 |
Shareholder value-driven banking | p. 103 |
Business model changes | p. 115 |
Banking after a Minskian moment? | p. 125 |
Prelude: Regulation Undermined Before 2007 | p. 132 |
Regulatory origins of the crisis: framing and liturgies | p. 134 |
London fog: constitutional and regulatory mystifications | p. 140 |
Deconstructing the social value of finance | p. 146 |
Silences, tensions, and failures in other systems | p. 154 |
Open and Shut? Democratic Opening vs Regulatory Closure After 2008 | p. 158 |
The crisis as repoliticization | p. 160 |
Three worlds of lobbying | p. 168 |
Distributional coalitions: organizing financial elites | p. 173 |
Going for closure: the Bischoff, Wigley, and Walker reports | p. 179 |
The Limits of Expertise: The United Kingdom as an Unhappy Family | p. 188 |
Neutralizing bank nationalization: bureaucrats and City networks | p. 191 |
Technocrats fight back: the policy intelligentsia | p. 197 |
The wrong kind of credit: inflating asset prices | p. 203 |
The United Kingdom after Thatcherism: where do the jobs come from? | p. 211 |
Reform? Hubristic Intervention or Effective Democracy | p. 219 |
Inhibited politicians | p. 221 |
Hubristic technocrats | p. 227 |
Technical fixes? | p. 231 |
Democratizing finance: possibilities and dangers | p. 242 |
References | p. 249 |
Index | p. 271 |
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