Durkheim's Reflection on the Crisis ... But Which One?
in Durkheimian Studies
Author:
Edward A. Tiryakian
Edward A. Tiryakian
University of Duke durkhm@soc.duke.edu
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On 2 April 2009 a well-publicized Summit meeting of the Group of Twenty Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors, more commonly known as the G-20, was held at London’s ExCel Centre in Custom House to discuss the great crisis facing the world’s weakened financial system and to propose, among other things, regulation to prevent systemic risks.1 The meeting was well attended by finance ministers, central bankers and hordes of reporters who gleefully reported as much on the protestors of disparate groups as on the accomplishments of the meeting.