Culture of the Market Network

虽然“金融知识”最近已成为许多政府的战略重点，但很少有系统的研究流行的金融知识的历史，或在经济危机时期市场行为的文化和情感因素的作用。市场网络的文化将汇集一个知识和文化历史学家的国际小组，一方面和商业和经济历史学家，另一方面，调查的认识论，主体性和社会关系的特定形式，创造了，反过来又有助于重新配置金融资本主义在漫长的十九世纪在美国。一系列的四个研讨会（一个在曼彻斯特，一个在哈佛，两个通过视频会议）将集中在19世纪美国的文化和经济学之间的交叉点，这一时期提供了许多有见地的相似之处，目前的危机在全球金融资本主义。该网络将具有跨学科和比较性的视野，促进研究人员核心小组与来自维多利亚时代英国和当今华尔街等相关领域的特邀专家之间的互动，该网络将调查非专家如何学会理解一般金融信息，特别是这一时期股票市场的运作。它将通过关注他们获得的金融知识的形式，以及转向统计和预测作为代表市场的方式背后的意识形态假设来做到这一点。该网络将审议有助于说服普通人参与股票市场的体制、修辞和心理机制，以及信任和信心等看似非经济因素在塑造这一时期市场行为方面的作用。它还将展示有关全球商品链如何帮助形成对全球化市场的普遍理解和不信任的研究。最后，网络将探讨如何流行的怀疑论市场和金钱发挥了政治斗争的时代。该网络的研究成果将通过一个项目网站进行宣传，该网站包括一个博客和一个会议记录播客、会议小组讨论、出版编辑的文集以及期刊文章和报纸新闻。

Although 'financial literacy' has recently become a strategic priority for many governments, there has been little systematic research into the history of popular financial knowledge, or the role of cultural and emotional dimensions of market behaviour in times of economic crisis. The Culture of the Market Network will bring together an international group of intellectual and cultural historians on the one hand and business and economic historians on the other to investigate the particular forms of epistemology, subjectivity and social relations that were created by and that in turn help reconfigure financial capitalism in the long nineteenth century in the United States. A series of four symposia (one in Manchester, one in Harvard, and two via videoconference) will focus on the intersections between culture and economics in nineteenth-century America, a period that offers many insightful parallels to the current moment of crisis in global financial capitalism. The Network will be interdisciplinary and comparative in outlook, promoting interaction between the core group of researchers and invited experts from related fields such as Victorian Britain and present-day Wall Street.The Network will investigate how non-experts learned to make sense of financial information in general and the operations of the stock market in particular in the period. It will do so by focussing on the forms of financial knowledge that they acquired, and the ideological assumptions behind the turn to statistics and forecasting as ways of representing the market. The Network will consider the institutional, rhetorical and psychological mechanisms that helped persuade ordinary people to participate in the stock market, and the role of seemingly non-economic factors such as trust and confidence in shaping market behaviour in the period. It will also showcase research on how global commodity chains helped forge a popular understanding - and distrust - of a globalised market. Finally the Network will explore how popular scepticism about the market and money played out in the political struggles of the era. The research findings of the network will be promoted through a project website that include a blog and a podcast of the proceedings, conference panels, the publication of an edited collection, and journal articles and newspaper journalism.