ABSTRACT

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.

摘要

金融市场有一段社会历史。19世纪，资本市场的诞生导致了证券交易所小说的诞生，启发了H de Balzac、E Zola等人。80年代，经济金融化，电影通过金融惊悚片捕捉到了这一变化。奥利弗·斯通 (Oliver Stone) 的《华尔街》 (1987) 开辟了一系列最近与证券交易所有关的电影。电影华尔街向我们展示了金融活动可以使社会迅速提升。股票市场活动呈现为零和游戏。金钱只是通过魔法从一个口袋转移到另一个口袋。因此，资本主义的动力部分源于它所剥削的个人的贪婪。市场是另一种形式的经济理性以不受道德负担的掠夺本能形式展开的地方。