This book seeks to explore the ethical dimensions of economic governance through an engagement with Adam Smith and a critical analysis of economistic understandings of the Global Financial Crisis. It examines ethical and political dilemmas associated with key aspects of the financialisation of Anglo-American economy and society, including systems of asset-based welfare, modern risk management and debt. In the wake of the financial crisis, recognition of the way in which everyday lives and life chances are tied into global finance is widespread. Yet few contributions in IPE explicitly tackle this issue as a question of ethics. By developing Adam Smith's under-utilised account of how market-oriented behaviour is constituted through a process of 'sympathy', this book provides an innovative way of understanding contemporary issues of economic governance and the possibilities and limits for intervention within it. By taking Adam Smith's moral philosophy seriously, it becomes evident that the ever-deeper enmeshing of finance in our everyday lives is a failed experiment. Turning the common understanding of Smith on its head, we can also turn accepted wisdom about the recent financial crisis on its head and see the urgency of making better known the ethico-political contestation that lies at the heart of financial market relations. It will be of interest to students and scholars of IPE as well as those across the social sciences who wish to question the foundations of contemporary economy and society.
Introduction. Global Finance in Crisis Adam Smith in Question Outline of the Book. Chapter 1: Engaging Adam Smith. Pragmatic Historiography. Skinnerian Mythologies about Adam Smith. Concluding Remarks. Chapter 2: Adam Smith's Sympathetic Political Economy. Smith's Context. Smith's Intervention. Smith's Sympathy. Concluding Remarks. Chapter 3: Sympathy and Economism in Anglo-American Finance. Sympathy and the Economism of Asset-Based Welfare. Mutual Sympathy and the Individualisation of Risk. The Sympathy Procedure and the Depoliticisation of Debt. Concluding Remarks. Chapter 4: The Regulatory Governance of Finance in Crisis. The Regulatory Governance of Asset-Based Welfare. The Regulatory Governance of Risk. The Regulatory Governance of Debt. Concluding Remarks. Chapter 5: The Everyday Politics of Finance in Crisis. The Everyday Politics of Asset-Based Welfare. The Everyday Politics of Risk. The Everyday Politics of Debt. Concluding Remarks. Conclusion. Occupy Adam Smith. Making Known Finance. Bibliography
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