Markets and Ideology in the City of London

Lazar, David

Markets and Ideology in the City of London is the first fieldwork-based sociological study of how participants in City of London financial markets view the markets in which they work and the market mechanism in general. But it is more than a narrow study of financial market participants because it is also an empirical investigation into how ideologies function and it develops a critique of pro-market ideologies such as 'Thatcherism'. Finally, it is one of a small number of sociological studies into the privileged world of high earners and the wealthy - sociologists too frequently study the powerless and the 'deviant' or 'marginal' groups.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 1990-08-13

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780333489833

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-10753-7

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 194