Global Finance and Urban Living: A Study of Metropolitan Change

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This incisive inter-disciplinary text provides a major contribution to the study of finance capital and the metropolis.

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List of illustrations
List of contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction	p. 1
Growth and dynamics of financial markets
London's Financial Markets: Perspectives and Prospects	p. 31
London as an International Financial Centre	p. 52
Financial Building Blocks in the Context of a Changing National and International Environment	p. 73
The Private Client Stockbroker: Helpful Agent Or Relic of the Past?	p. 96
Fraudbusting in London: Developments in the Policing of White-Collar Crime	p. 120
Cultural Contradictions in the Legitimation of Market Practice: Paradox in the Regulation of the City	p. 142
Old City and New Times: Economic and Political Aspects of Deregulation	p. 171
Patterns of culture, space and work
The City as a Landscape of Power: London and New York as Global Financial Capitals	p. 195
City Futures	p. 224
The Coming of the Groundscrapers	p. 246
An Urban Narrative and the Imperatives of the City	p. 260
In the Wake of Money: The City of London and the Accumulation of Value	p. 282
Yuppies: A Keyword of the 1980s	p. 312
Brick Lane: A Village Economy in the Shadow of the City?	p. 333
Name index	p. 353
Subject index	p. 358
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