Money Talks

Graham Murdock is Professor of Culture and Economy in the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University.Jostein Gripsrud is Professor in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen.

• Financial speculations: Contested constructions of markets and crisisGraham Murdock Part 1: Insider talk Chapter 1: Financial insider talk in the city of LondonAeron Davis Chapter 2: Funny in a rich man’s world: The contradictory conceptions of money in forex tradingPeter A. Thompson Chapter 3: Stating support for the city: Thirty years of budget talkCatherine Walsh Part 2: News talk  Chapter 4: More of the same: News, economic growth and the recycling of conventional wisdomJustin Lewis and Richard Thomas Chapter 5: Conflict of interest disclosure in economics: Will journalists aid the cause?George DeMartino Chapter 6: Trouble in the markets: Differentiation in the Norwegian financial news landscapeNina Kvalheim and Helle Sjøvaag Chapter 7: Covering the crisis: Politics and cultureJostein Gripsrud Part 3: Screen talk Chapter 8: No guns, no rules, just pure capitalism! Hollywood’s portraits of Wall StreetAnja Peltzer Chapter 9: System down! Three documentary accounts of crisisJohn Corner Part 4: Everyday talk  Chapter 10: ‘I just hope the whole thing won’t collapse’: ‘Understanding’ and ‘overcoming’ the EU financial crisis from the citizen’s perspectiveAndreas Hepp, Swantje Lingenberg, Monika Elsler, Johanna Möller, Anne Mollen and Anke Offerhaus Afterword: Business as usual and its discontentsGraham Murdock