Burbujas especulativas y crisis financierasuna aproximación neofuncionalista

  1. José Mª García Blanco 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Oviedo
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    Universidad de Oviedo

    Oviedo, España

    ROR https://ror.org/006gksa02

Journal:
REIS: Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas

ISSN: 0210-5233

Year of publication: 2015

Issue: 150

Pages: 71-88

Type: Article

DOI: 10.5477/CIS/REIS.150.71 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

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Abstract

If economics tends to emphasize the role of irrational behaviour in the formation of the speculative bubble that caused the recent fi nancial crisis, sociology tends to focus on the institutions and social structures that sustain the fi nancial system, particularly the dense social networks formed by fi nancial elites, which function as a socio-culturally closed circle leading to herd behaviour. This article proposes a different interpretation of this supposed herd behaviour, based on functional differentiation and how it fosters internal, second order observation. Modern markets are a particularly striking example of this, and especially fi nancial ones in which self-referential closure is particularly intense, because they trade money, the medium that supports the self-reference of the economic system.

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