Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface: Financial values as social fact / Andre Orléan -- Rethinking finance in the face of new social, societal and environmental challenges / David Bourghelle and Philippe Rozin -- Part I. Finance, financialization in a global market -- Introduction: Finance and financialisation in a global world / Yamina Tadjeddine -- 1. Financial instability and temporality conflicts in financialized capitalism / Renaud du Tertre -- 2. Unconventional monetary policies: new normal or "black hole"? 2019: the year of truth / Jacques Ninet -- 3. On the financialization of business strategies / Roland Pérez -- 4. How do we counter financialization? / Paul Jorion -- Part II. The construction of financial values: an historical perspective -- Introduction: The construction of financial values: a historical perspective / Catherine Karyotis -- 5. Paving the way towards financialization: The French case of state venality of offices (century 15th-17th) / Nicolas Pinsard -- 6. The institutional architecture of value: appraisals and the formation of bubbles in the financialized real estate sector / Marine Duros -- 7. Accounting as a political object / Edouard Jourdain -- Part III. Social reality and the new financial structures: sustainable and participatory finance -- Introduction: Responsible finance and social impact: assessing alternative forms of social engagement and value creation / Sharam Alijani -- 8. Social impacts and their contracts / Florence Jany-Catrice and Marion Studer -- 9. The crowdfunding: towards a commodification of generosity? / Amélie Artis and Virginie Monvoisin -- 10. Sustainable finance: concepts, analyses and perspectives / Dhafer Saidane and Sana Ben Abdallah -- Part IV. Finance, markets and society: rethinking the paradigm? -- Introduction: Finance, markets and society: rethinking the paradigm / Roland Pérez -- 11. Economics and finance: the monopoly and dangers of the mainstream school of thought / Marc Chesney -- 12. Can behavioral finance be the foundation for new regulation? / Sabrina Chikh and Pascal Grandin -- 13. Collective affects and speculative bubbles in financial markets: a Spinozist perspective / David Bourghelle and Philippe Rozin -- 14. Teaching finance through a social science lens / Stéphanie Serve and Yamina Tadjeddine -- Conclusion: Finance and sustainability: an integrated thinking / Thomas Lagoarde-Segot, Roland Pérez, and William Sun -- Postscript / Michel Levasseur -- Index.

Rethinking Finance in the Face of New Challengesprovides an overview of the new research perspectives devoted to financial activity, reconsidering the opposition between orthodox and heterodox schools of finance.