Christophers Banking Across Boundaries

Placing Finance in Capitalism
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-29550-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Antipode Book Series

This compelling contribution to contemporary debates about thebanking industry offers a unique perspective on its geographicaland conceptual 'placement'. It traces the evolvinglinks between the two, revealing how our notions of banking'productiveness' have evolved alongside the shiftingloci of banking activity.
* An original contribution to the urgent debates taking place onbanking sparked by the current economic crisis
* Offers a unique perspective on the geographical and socialconcept of 'placement' of the banking industry
* Combines theoretical approaches from political economy withcontemporary literature on the performativity of economics
* Details the globalization of Western banking, and analyzes howrepresentations of the banking sector's productiveness haveshifted throughout the evolution of Western economic theory
* Analyzes the social conceptualization of the nature - andvalue - of the banking industry
* Illuminates not only how economic ideas 'perform'and shape the economic world, but how those ideas are themselvesalways products of particular economic realities

Autoren/Hrsg.

Christophers, Brett

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures viii
List of Abbreviations ix
Acknowledgments x
Introduction 1
Part I Worlds Apart: Before Keynes 25
1 The Birth of Economic Productiveness 27
2 Instrumental Internationalism 57
Part II Worlds Aligned: From the Great Depression to the Eve of the Big Bang 101
3 Enclosing the Unproductive 103
4 America, and Boundaries Breached 146
Part III Co-Constituted Worlds: The Age of Financialization? 185
5 Layering the Logics of Free Trade in Banking 187
6 Anaemic Geographies of Productive Finance 229
Afterword 275
Index 282

Über Autor(innen)

Brett Christophers is Assistant Professor in theDepartment of Social and Economic Geography and the Institute forHousing and Urban Research at the University of Uppsala, Sweden. Heholds degrees from the Universities of Oxford, UK, BritishColumbia, Canada, and Auckland, New Zealand, and is the authorof Positioning the Missionary: John Booth Good and theConfluence of Cultures in Nineteenth-Century British Columbia(1998) and Envisioning Media Power: On Capital and Geographiesof Television (2009).