11The power of relational work

Reimagining new forms of financial citizenship through sociability

Shannon M. Calderone

DOI: 10.4324/9781003020264-12

Introduction

Prior to the 2008 financial and real estate crisis, the financial management sector enjoyed unprecedented growth. Buoyed by rapid deregulation of the banking industry, technological advancements leading to more complex financial tools and instrumentation, and large-scale growth in a broad spectrum of available financial and consumer service providers, the financial services industry was widely understood to be a key engine for our knowledge-based, increasingly global, economy (Braunstein & Welch, 2002; Finke & Huston, 2014; Remund, 2010). The unfortunate by-product of this tremendous ...

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