Pixley (sociology, London Metropolitan U., UK; and Macquarie U., Australia) introduces this collection of 10 contributions from fellow sociologists based in the US, Europe, and Australia. The
first five address emotions and the present crisis: magic thinking, panic buttons, immoral panic and emotional operations, the role of confidence, shame and stock market losses, and trust. The
remaining chapters address historical and theoretical context: revisiting the credit theory of money and trust, methodology in Max Weber’s economic sociology, sociology’s contribution to
understanding financial booms and crises, the emotions of hard trading in Japanese prisoner of war camps, and betrayal and reform in connection with the emotions of money. Annotation ©2013 Book
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