Overview
This timely book offers important new insights into the boundaries between political and financial geographies, focusing on the links between the changing strategies, policies and institutions of the state. It investigates banks and other financial institutions affected by both state policies and a globalizing financial system, and the financial resources available to firms as well as households. In so doing, the book highlights how an empirical focus on the semi-periphery of the financial system may generate new perspectives on the entanglement between geopolitics and finance. Chapters explore a range of place-specific relations, highlighting the impact of state-led reforms, the importance of models, innovation and adaptation to local conditions, and bank intermediation. Conceptually, the book engages with insights from a variety of disciplines in order to explore the connections between geo-political and geo-economic discourses, public finance and foreign policy, the practices and localization of financial institutions, and the evolution of strategies for globalizing firms. Political and financial geographers will find this book to be a compelling read, as it sheds new light on the semi-periphery, which is often overlooked in studies addressing the global financial system. Economic policy-makers working on the nexus between politics, finance and development will also benefit from reading this book. Contributors include: S. Ageeva, G. Battisti, F. Betioli Contel, S. Grandi, J. Jafri, G. Lim, A. Mishura, T.T. Nguyen, M. Percoco, U. Rosati, C. Sellar, E. Stavrova, E. Yilmaz
Full Product Details
Author: Silvia Grandi ,
Christian Sellar ,
Juvaria Jafri
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Imprint: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 9781789903843
ISBN 10: 178990384
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 05 December 2019
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
`In examining the boundaries between political and financial geographies, Grandi, Sellar and Jafri pose important questions about the nature and interrelations of geography, law, science, politics and finance. Their volume represents a rich tapestry that examines the evolution of international financial institutions as well as their social, political and economic ramifications across semi-peripheral financial areas . The emphasis on the complex web of relations between governments, firms and households across under-represented locations deepens the reader's understanding of the intricate flows of finance as they operate across time and place, with a geo-political focus that links power, politics and policy. This is an impressive volume that will speak to academics and practitioners with an interest in financial geography alike.' -- Janelle Knox-Hayes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US `The contemporary world economy is a financialized one. The editors and authors of this collection are very successful in analysing some of the significant political geographical dimensions of the global and networked finance in semi-peripheries that have hitherto been mostly neglected in English-language scholarship. Founded on extensive empirical materials and laced with cogent conceptual insights, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in the spatialities of finance of the contemporary geopolitical condition.' -- Sami Moisio, University of Helsinki, Finland
'....the authors enrich our knowledge on financialisation as a diverse real-world process, and by doing so, reveal mechanisms of unequal development and its variegated nature in the current regime of capitalism.' -- Erika Nagy, Hungarian Geographical Bulletin 'In examining the boundaries between political and financial geographies, Grandi, Sellar and Jafri pose important questions about the nature and interrelations of geography, law, science, politics and finance. Their volume represents a rich tapestry that examines the evolution of international financial institutions as well as their social, political and economic ramifications across semi-peripheral financial areas . The emphasis on the complex web of relations between governments, firms and households across under-represented locations deepens the reader's understanding of the intricate flows of finance as they operate across time and place, with a geopolitical focus that links power, politics and policy. This is an impressive volume that will speak to academics and practitioners with an interest in financial geography alike.' -- Janelle Knox-Hayes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US 'The contemporary world economy is a financialized one. The editors and authors of this collection are very successful in analysing some of the significant political geographical dimensions of global and networked finance in semi-peripheries that have hitherto been mostly neglected in English-language scholarship. Founded on extensive empirical materials and laced with cogent conceptual insights, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in the spatialities of finance of the contemporary geopolitical condition.' -- Sami Moisio, University of Helsinki, Finland
'In examining the boundaries between political and financial geographies, Grandi, Sellar and Jafri pose important questions about the nature and interrelations of geography, law, science, politics and finance. Their volume represents a rich tapestry that examines the evolution of international financial institutions as well as their social, political and economic ramifications across ''semi-peripheral financial areas''. The emphasis on the complex web of relations between governments, firms and households across under-represented locations deepens the reader's understanding of the intricate flows of finance as they operate across time and place, with a geo-political focus that links power, politics and policy. This is an impressive volume that will speak to academics and practitioners with an interest in financial geography alike.' --Janelle Knox-Hayes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US'The contemporary world economy is a financialized one. The editors and authors of this collection are very successful in analysing some of the significant political geographical dimensions of the global and networked finance in semi-peripheries that have hitherto been mostly neglected in English-language scholarship. Founded on extensive empirical materials and laced with cogent conceptual insights, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in the spatialities of finance of the contemporary geopolitical condition.' --Sami Moisio, University of Helsinki, Finland
Author Information
Edited by Silvia Grandi, Department of Statistical Sciences ‘Paolo Fortunati’, University of Bologna, Italy, Christian Sellar, Department of Public Policy Leadership, University of Mississippi, US and Juvaria Jafri, Department of International Politics, City, University of London, UK
