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Banking Across Boundaries "Placing Finance in Capitalism"

Banking Across Boundaries "Placing Finance in Capitalism"

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  • ISBN:9781444338287
  • Editorial: Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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  • Nº Pág.:272
  • Idiomas:Ingles

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This compelling contribution to contemporary debates about the banking industry offers a unique perspective on its geographical and conceptual 'placement'. It traces the evolving links between the two, revealing how our notions of banking 'productiveness' have evolved alongside the shifting loci of banking activity. An original contribution to the urgent debates taking place on banking sparked by the current economic crisis Offers a unique perspective on the geographical and social concept of 'placement' of the banking industry Combines theoretical approaches from political economy with contemporary literature on the performativity of economics Details the globalization of Western banking, and analyzes how representations of the banking sector's productiveness have shifted throughout the evolution of Western economic theory Analyzes the social conceptualization of the nature -- and value -- of the banking industry Illuminates not only how economic ideas 'perform' and shape the economic world, but how those ideas are themselves always products of particular economic rea

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

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