Financial elites and transnational business : who rules the world?
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Financial elites and transnational business : who rules the world?
Edward Elgar, c2012
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Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This absorbing book addresses the seemingly simple question of who rules the world by linking it to debates about who owns the world and what this means for the dynamics of global power distribution. Several expert contributors focus on global issues, including the role of transnational finance, interlocking directorates, ownership and tax havens. Others examine how these issues at the global level interact with the regional or nation state level in the US, the UK, China, Australia and Mexico. The book scrutinizes globalization from a fresh, holistic perspective, examining the relationship between the national and transnational to uncover the most significant structures and agents of power. Possible policy futures are also considered.
Academics and researchers across a varied spectrum of fields encompassing business and management, international studies and public policy will find this book both fascinating and important.
Contributors: W.K. Carroll, B. Cronin, F.-X. Dudouet, E. Gremont, J. Harris, G. Murray, D. Peetz, A. Salas-Porras, J. Scott, C.L. Staples, A. van Fossen, A. Vion
Table of Contents
Contents:
1. Capital Mobilization, Transnational Structures, and Capitalist Classes
John Scott
2. The Financialization of Global Corporate Ownership
David Peetz and Georgina Murray
3. Capital Relations and Directorate Interlocking: The Global Network in 2007
William K. Carroll
4. The Transnational Capitalist Class and Tax Havens
Anthony van Fossen
5. The Business Roundtable and the Transnational Capitalist Class
Clifford L. Staples
6. Transnational Business Networks in the Eurozone: A Focus on Four Major Stock Exchange Indices
Francois-Xavier Dudouet, Eric Gremont and Antoine Vion
7. The Transnational Class in Mexico: New and Old Mechanisms Structuring Corporate Networks (1981-2010)
Alejandra Salas-Porras
8. National and Transnational Structuring of the British Corporate Elite
Bruce Cronin
9. Australia's Ruling Class: A Local Elite, a Transnational Capitalist Class or Bits of Both?
Georgina Murray
10. Outward Bound: Transnational Capitalism in China
Jerry Harris
11. Corporate Futures and the Consequences from the Top End of Town
Georgina Murray
Index
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