This article proposes an analytics to study the financial industry as a global political institution, based on its role in the production of global hierarchies, by the way it collects, produces and distributes money worldwide. I propose to do this by combining three analytic angles. First, I propose to situate the financial industry in a global space, where it contributes to produce multiple social hierarchies, which connect to the history of colonialism, the World Wars, the Cold War and its aftermath. These hierarchies cannot be subsumed under a single logic, but must be studied as intersecting and mutually constitutive. The second angle concerns the rules of monetary distribution applied by financial professionals, mobilizing, among others, the concepts of investor, market efficiency, risk and value, with their partly contradictory character and their technical, moral and political meanings. These rules are institutionalized in state regulation, labour and commercial contracts, giving the financial industry a certain institutional cohesion worldwide. The last analytic angle then concerns the way in which financial professionals make sense of their place in the global hierarchies they contribute to produce. They tend to use repertoires of meritocracy to connect their role in global monetary distribution to the social elites they tend to belong to, with conflicts that vary across the multiple forms of social identification present in the financial industry worldwide. Combining these three analytic angles allows for mobilizing fieldwork done in the offices of the financial industry to develop a critical account of its global political role.

本文提出一种分析方法，以研究金融业作为全球政治机构的基础，以其在全球层次结构生产中的作用为基础，通过其在全球范围内的收集，生产和分配资金的方式来进行研究。我建议通过结合三个分析角度来做到这一点。首先，我建议将金融业定位在全球空间中，在那里它有助于产生多种社会等级制度，这些等级制度与殖民主义，世界大战，冷战及其后果的历史息息相关。这些层次结构不能包含在一个逻辑中，而必须作为相交和相互构成的对象进行研究。第二个角度涉及金融专业人士运用的货币分配规则，除其他外，动员投资者概念，市场效率，风险和价值，具有部分自相矛盾的特征以及其技术，道德和政治意义。这些规则已在国家法规，劳工和商业合同中制度化，使金融业在世界范围内具有一定的制度凝聚力。然后，最后一个分析角度涉及金融专业人士如何理解其在所贡献的全球层次结构中的位置。他们倾向于使用精英管理的手段将其在全球货币分配中的作用与他们所归属的社会精英联系起来，冲突在全球金融业中存在的多种形式的社会认同中各不相同。将这三个分析角度结合起来，可以动员在金融业办公室进行的实地调查，以对其金融业的全球政治作用做出重要的描述。