Bank Culture Debate
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- ISBN 9780198843764
- Format: Hardback
- Weight: 620g
- Dimensions: 162 x 241mm
- Publication Date: 16 Sep 2019
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The period since the Global Financial Crisis and numerous scandals have exposed some areas of serious illegal and unethical conduct within western banking systems. Despite extensive reforms it is increasingly apparent however that there is a persistent problem with the 'culture' of banking in Anglo-America.
US and UK state managers made substantial efforts to reform the culture of their banking sectors. However, this book argues that they focused on an extremely narrow definition of bank culture. They did so for two reasons: firstly, because the structural pressures of financialization - which are a far more important driver of the problematic features of bank culture in Anglo-America - are harder to remedy; but secondly, state managers also used their bank culture response to tackle a legitimacy crisis facing their institutions of government. In so doing they abdicated responsibility for the real problems - of inequality and instability - associated with their respective financial systems
Drawing on interviews with more than 150 individuals working in financial services as well as regulators, politicians, and lawyers, The Bank Culture Debate explains the strategies employed by state managers before then examining what has and has not changed in the culture of banking in the US and UK.
Dr Macartney is Associate Professor in Political Economy at the University of Birmingham. He was previously a Hallsworth Fellow at the University of Manchester, and an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Nottingham. His research focuses on the politics of banking and financial markets and he is the author of two books and numerous journal articles on these topics. His work has been published in internationally-renowned journals such as Review of International Political Economy, West European Politics, and Review of International Studies.
