Money/space: Geographies of Monetary TransformationBringing together in one volume the most important writings of Andrew Leyshon and Nigel Thrift on money and finance, including the unpublished classic, 'Sexy Greedy', this collection examines the economic, social and cultural manifestations that go to make up a multiple vision of money. Since the mid-1980s, attention to the role played by money and finance in the process of social and economic change has become pervasive across the social sciences. The documentation of monetary and financial matters reflects growing concern with the 'power of money' and the ways in which this power has the force to influence the conduct of social and economic life across a range of geographical scales. Money/Space describes the economy of international money, linking it with the distribution of social power. It looks at some of the ways in which this world of money, exemplified by finance capital and financial markets, is discursively constituted through particular social-cultural practices and shows how the world of money is constructed at a number of spatial scales. |
Contents
High summer | 39 |
in a City merchant bank 1984 | 157 |
Fall | 185 |
financial abandonment | 225 |
reconfiguring | 323 |
Notes | 355 |
368 | |
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Money/Space: Geographies of Monetary Transformation Andrew Leyshon,Nigel Thrift Limited preview - 2005 |
Money/Space: Geographies of Monetary Transformation Andrew Leyshon,Nigel Thrift Limited preview - 2005 |
Common terms and phrases
accumulation areas argue assets banks become borrowers branch Bretton Woods Bretton Woods system Britain British building society capitalist cent centralisation chapter circulation City of London City's commodity money competition corporate costs country house credit money credit unions currency debt crisis developed countries discourse disintermediated domestic earnings economic effects electronic European example fictitious capital financial capital financial centres financial exclusion financial infrastructure withdrawal financial institutions financial markets financial regulation financial services firms financial services industry foreign exchange markets geography growth important income increase increasingly interest rates international financial system investment labour market Leyshon linked loans Marxist neo-Gramscian networks operate organisation particular period process of financial productive capital regulation theory regulatory order restructuring risk role Second sector securitised South East space spatial Stock Exchange structure surplus value telephone Thrift trade United wealth
References to this book
Unsettling Cities: Movement/settlement John Allen,Doreen B. Massey,Michael Pryke No preview available - 1999 |