Global Finance in the New Century Beyond Deregulation

This edited volume explores the complex processes of financial expansion, financial deregulation and its consequences.

LIBBY ASSASSI is a Researcher, DUNCAN WIGAN is an ESRC sponsored Researcher and ANASTASIA NESVETAILOVA is a lecturer, all at the Centre for Global Political Economy, University of Sussex.

Introduction--L.Assassi, A.Nesvetailova & D.Wigan * PART 1: THE NEW INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL ARCHITECTURE * Offshore Financial Centres, Hot Money and Hedge Funds--N.Coates & B.Rafferty * Financial Derivatives: The New Gold--D.Bryan & M.Rafferty * Globalization, Efficient Markets and Arbitrage--D.Mackenzie * Fair Value Accounting and Financialization--J.Perry * PART 2: THE POPULARIZATION OF FINANCE * Finance and the Fragility of Neo-liberalism in France--G.Dumenil * The Democratization of Finance--J.Froud & K.Williams * Gender, Risk and Investment Decision-Making: Can the Legal System Respond?--M.Condon * Consumer Debt and Finance-Led Growth--J.Montgomerie * European Passport and Financial Expansion--O.Raviv * PART 3: EMBEDDING DEREGULATED FINANCE * Markets and Institutions in American Finance--M.Konings * The Political Economy of Post-Soviet Offshorization--K.Haiduk * Tax, Subsidies and Profits: Business and Corporate Capitalization--R.Palan * Surveillance, Security and the War on Terrorist Finance--M.De Goede * Redesigning Financial Supervision--A.Persaud Introduction--L.Assassi, A.Nesvetailova & D.Wigan * PART 1: THE NEW INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL ARCHITECTURE * Offshore Financial Centres, Hot Money and Hedge Funds--N.Coates & B.Rafferty * Financial Derivatives: The New Gold--D.Bryan & M.Rafferty * Globalization, Efficient Markets and Arbitrage--D.Mackenzie * Fair Value Accounting and Financialization--J.Perry * PART 2: THE POPULARIZATION OF FINANCE * Finance and the Fragility of Neo-liberalism in France--G.Dumenil * The Democratization of Finance--J.Froud & K.Williams * Gender, Risk and Investment Decision-Making: Can the Legal System Respond?--M.Condon * Consumer Debt and Finance-Led Growth--J.Montgomerie * European Passport and Financial Expansion--O.Raviv * PART 3: EMBEDDING DEREGULATED FINANCE * Markets and Institutions in American Finance--M.Konings * The Political Economy of Post-Soviet Offshorization--K.Haiduk * Tax, Subsidies and Profits: Business and Corporate Capitalization--R.Palan * Surveillance, Security and the War on Terrorist Finance--M.De Goede * Redesigning Financial Supervision--A.Persaud