Wall Street
On capitalism and the predatory instinct
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18967972 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thierry Suchère (Université Le Havre Normandie, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 294-307 |
| Publication date | 2022-10-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for Cultural Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1479-7585 • E-ISSN: 1740-1666 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14797585.2022.2137819 |
| OpenAlex | W4308145564 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 11 |
Financial markets have a social history. In the 19th century, birth of capital markets led to the birth of the stock exchange novel, which inspired H de Balzac, E Zola, etc. During the 1980s, the financialization of the economy saw the cinema captured this change through the financial thriller. Oliver Stone’s Wall Street (1987) inaugurates a list of recent movies that deals with the stock exchange. The film Wall Street shows us that financial activity allows rapid social ascension. The stock market activity is presented as a zero-sum game. Money simply passes from one pocket to another by the virtue of magic. The dynamic of capitalism thus finds part of their source in the greed of the individuals that it exploits. The market is the place where another form of economic rationality unfolds in the form of an instinct for predation which is not burdened by morality
Capitalism · Economics · Financial market · Financialization · Homo economicus · Instinct · Market economy · Neoclassical economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Rationality · Sociology · Stock exchange · Banking stability, regulation, efficiency · Economic Theory and Institutions · Economic Theory and Policy · Law · Finance
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |