Good news! The LSE is launching a new executive summer course in the sociology of finance.<\/p>\n
The course, titled \u201cCulture, Networks and Performance,\u201d is a first of its kind. For the first time, an academic program is putting to use the award-winning concepts of the\u00a0sociology of finance<\/a>\u00a0\u2013market devices<\/a>,\u00a0embeddedness<\/a>,\u00a0performativity<\/a>\u2013 to give professionals in finance an advantage in trading, banking or risk management.<\/p>\n This course is premised on one simple idea: that there is a new and distinctive way to think\u00a0sociologically<\/em>\u00a0about financial markets. Different from orthodox economics and its emphasis on rational choice. Different as well from behavioral finance and its focus on individuals and mistakes (or \u201cbiases\u201d). The sociology of finance incorporates technology like formulae and machines in our understanding of markets. It conceptualizes markets as controversies, where there is often no right and wrong. It explains why management, culture, practice, are critically important to the calculative processes of a bank. And it provides a balanced take on markets \u2013 in between the \u201cmarkets always get it right\u201d approach from economics, and the \u201cthis is how people get it wrong\u201d from behavioral finance.<\/p>\n Participants can expect to:<\/p>\n The course is organized by\u00a0Nina Andreeva<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Daniel Beunza<\/a>. But the instructors will include a broad set of heavyweights from the LSE, including\u00a0Michael Power<\/a>\u00a0(LSE Accounting),\u00a0Paul Willman<\/a>\u00a0(LSE Management),\u00a0Jean Pierre Zigrand<\/a>\u00a0(LSE Finance) and\u00a0Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra<\/a>\u00a0(LSE Sociology).<\/p>\n For more information, dates and a longer description,\u00a0see here<\/a>. And for even more information, just drop Daniel Beunza a line at d.beunza@lse.ac.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n