Markets and Ideology in the City of London

Download or read book Markets and Ideology in the City of London written by David Lazar and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.