1st Edition
The Financialisation of Power How financiers rule Africa
Table of contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The increasing financialisation of everything?
Chapter 3: Financialisation: how and why is it happening?
Chapter 4: The relationship between the virtual and the material
Chapter 5: Frontiers of accumulation and ecology
Chapter 6: Illicit financial flows and exemptions from sovereignty
Chapter 7: The financialisation of power and political corruption
Chapter 8: Financialised assistance, democracy and the anti-political future
Biography
Sarah Bracking is SARCHi Chair in Applied Poverty Reduction Assessment at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and Professor of International Development at the University of Manchester, UK.
'Once again Sarah Bracking has delivered a stunning tour de force that ranges from the grand South African infrastructure projects to the milliseconds of computerised trade deals in Chicago. Empirically rich, theoretically sophisticated, challenging, provocative and disturbing, this book will help you to see finance, and especially development finance, in a completely new light.’ — Professor Dan Brockington, Director, The Sheffield Institute for Development Studies, UK
