Finance and world politics : markets, regimes and states in the post-hegemonic era
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Bibliographic Information
Finance and world politics : markets, regimes and states in the post-hegemonic era
(Studies in international political economy)
Edward Elgar, c1993
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Money has always been at the heart of international relations. United States monetary domination was the cornerstone of American hegemony in the post-war international political economy and a key factor in generating the long boom from the late 1940s to the early 1970s. The breakdown of that system, however, has opened the way for the revival of international 'high finance', based on floating exchange rates, financial market deregulation and information technology that can shift money around the world with a tap of a button. Focusing on the crucial role of finance in the international political economy from an international relations and political science perspective, Finance and World Politics analyses the economic and political reasons why financial markets have so rapidly become transnational. The book examines the breakdown of the old system, but chiefly concentrates on the problems of the new. Who will control international money in this new environment? Is domestic economic policy condemned to an 'embedded financial orthodoxy' of long term austerity punctuated by financial bubbles and panics? The contributors argue that as a result of these changes the possibility of any state exercising overall dominance and control, or hegemony, in the future has become negligible.
Finance and World Politics is one of the first books to address international finance directly from a political economy perspective, making it an invaluable tool for students and lecturers, as well as a significant contribution to policy debates taking place in both the public and private sectors.
Table of Contents
Contents: Part I: The Problem of Finance in International Political Economy Part II: The Politics of Transnational Finance in a More Open World Part III: States, Regions and the International Financial Order Index
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