1986
DOI: 10.1016/0361-3682(86)90029-2
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The transformation of business finance into financial economics: The roles of academic expansion and changes in U.S. capital markets

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“…In spite of its economic importance, finance has featured relatively rarely in writing on business ethics (Boatright 2008;Hendry 2013), and with the intellectual ''capture'' of finance by financial economics (Whitely 1986), ethics is also given little consideration within finance literature (Prindl and Prodhan 1994). Thus few mainstream financial topics have been analysed adequately from an ethical perspective.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In spite of its economic importance, finance has featured relatively rarely in writing on business ethics (Boatright 2008;Hendry 2013), and with the intellectual ''capture'' of finance by financial economics (Whitely 1986), ethics is also given little consideration within finance literature (Prindl and Prodhan 1994). Thus few mainstream financial topics have been analysed adequately from an ethical perspective.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Although often overlooked or denied by the most active market promoters, this political dimension is recognized by other actors. Second, our paper emphasizes the role played by academic knowledge in the structuring of modern financial markets (Whitley 1986). Credit derivatives would not have seen the light were it not for the conceptual and computational matrix provided by Black, Merton and Scholes (1973) and their followers.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Esto fue el producto, en parte, de una transformación de la reglamentación financiera que retomó los términos de una teoría financiera estandarizada desde los años 1950, según la cual había que darle a esta industria la responsabilidad de representar a "inversores" que se encontrarían en "mercados" cuya "eficiencia" permitiría una "creación de valor" a través de una adjudicación "óptima" del crédito (De Goede, 2005;MacKenzie, 2006;Whitley, 1986). El horizonte explícitamente político de la distribución social de los recursos se presentaba así como el resultado de la aplicación de metodologías cuyo carácter únicamente técnico sería la garantía de su buen resultado (Foucault, 2004).…”
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