Much of the scholarship in the social study of finance has done the invaluable work of illuminating the nuances and complexities of how the financial services industry works, revealing that, at the heart of a sector that prides itself on the surgical and scientific management of risk and the dispassionate, distanced and objective manipulation of abstract economic objects, the unruly mess of culture is at work.

Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, loc. 575