TY - JOUR
T1 - From Artisan to Partisan
T2 - What Would It Mean to Be an Artisan of Finance?
AU - Thompson, Grahame
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - This article confronts the question of what a revitalized financial sector might look like if this were to be reconfigured so as to reproduce first an artisanal-like persona for the financial analyst and craft-like organizational structure for financial businesses, and second if this were to be re-territorialized so that it acted like a partisan rather than, as at present, like a disembedded footloose structure of ‘global finance’. Initially the analysis is pitched at a rather abstract and theoretical level – pulling together artisans, nomads and partisans and tracing their intellectual lineages. But the chapter ends with three very concrete illustrations of actual financial relations in practice that meet some of the criteria for being both artisanal and partisanal.
AB - This article confronts the question of what a revitalized financial sector might look like if this were to be reconfigured so as to reproduce first an artisanal-like persona for the financial analyst and craft-like organizational structure for financial businesses, and second if this were to be re-territorialized so that it acted like a partisan rather than, as at present, like a disembedded footloose structure of ‘global finance’. Initially the analysis is pitched at a rather abstract and theoretical level – pulling together artisans, nomads and partisans and tracing their intellectual lineages. But the chapter ends with three very concrete illustrations of actual financial relations in practice that meet some of the criteria for being both artisanal and partisanal.
KW - Artisan
KW - Local financial activity
KW - Automated trading
KW - High-frequency trading
KW - Financial system
KW - Partisan
U2 - 10.1080/17530350.2013.838599
DO - 10.1080/17530350.2013.838599
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1753-0350
VL - 7
SP - 95
EP - 120
JO - Journal of Cultural Economy
JF - Journal of Cultural Economy
IS - 1
ER -