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The Routledge Handbook of Financial Geography

Edited By Janelle Knox-Hayes, Dariusz Wójcik Copyright 2021
    736 Pages 65 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    736 Pages 65 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    736 Pages 65 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge
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    This handbook is a comprehensive and up to date work of reference that offers a survey of the state of financial geography. With Brexit, a global recession triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as new financial technology threatening and promising to revolutionize finance, the map of the financial world is in a state of transformation, with major implications for development.

    With these developments in the background, this handbook builds on this unprecedented momentum and responds to these epochal challenges, offering a comprehensive guide to financial geography. Financial geography is concerned with the study of money and finance in space and time, and their impacts on economy, society and nature. The book consists of 29 chapters organized in six sections: theoretical perspectives on financial geography, financial assets and markets, investors, intermediation, regulation and governance, and finance, development and the environment. Each chapter provides a balanced overview of current knowledge, identifying issues and discussing relevant debates. Written in an analytical and engaging style by authors based on six continents from a wide range of disciplines, the work also offers reflections on where the research agenda is likely to advance in the future.

    The book’s key audience will primarily be students and researchers in geography, urban studies, global studies and planning, more or less familiar with financial geography, who seek access to a state-of-the art survey of this area. It will also be useful for students and researchers in other disciplines, such as finance and economics, history, sociology, anthropology, politics, business studies, environmental studies and other social sciences, who seek convenient access to financial geography as a new and relatively unfamiliar area. Finally, it will be a valuable resource for practitioners in the public and private sector, including business consultants and policy-makers, who look for alternative approaches to understanding money and finance.

    Acknowledgements

    List of Figures

    List of Tables

    List of Contributors

    　

    1. Introduction
      Janelle Knox-Hayes and Dariusz Wójcik

      2.

      Part A. Theoretical perspectives in financial geography

    2. Financial and Business Services: A Guide for the Perplexed
      Dariusz Wójcik

      3.

    3. Foundations of Marxist Financial Geography

      4. Patrick Bond

    4. Cultural Economy of Finance

      5. Sarah Hall

    5. Beyond (de)regulation: law and the production of financial geographies

      6. Shaina Potts

    6. Financial Ecosystems and Ecologies

      7. Andrew Leyshon

      Part B. Financial assets and markets

    7. From Cowry Shells to Cryptos: Evolving geographies of currency

      8. Matthew Zook

    8. The geography of global stock markets and overseas listings

      9. Fenghua Pan

    9. Housing under the empire of finance

      10. Raquel Rolnik

    10. Commodities

    Stephen Ouma

    1. Infrastructure: The Harmonization of an Asset Class and Implications for Local Governance

      2. Gabriella Y. Carolini and Isadora Cruxên

      Part C. Investors

    2. Long-Term Investment Management: The Principal–Agent Problem and Metrics of Performance

      3. Gordon L Clark and Ashby HB Monk

    3. Knowledge, experience, and financial decision-making

      4. Gordon L Clark

    4. Household Finance

      5. Christopher Harker and Johnna Montgomerie

    5. Impact investors: The ethical financialization of development, society and nature

    Paul Langley

    1. The Foundations of Development Banking: A Critical Review

      2. Aniket Shah

      Part D. Intermediation

    2. Banks and Credit

      3. Lindsey Appleyard

    3. Insurance, and the prospects of insurability

      4. Kate Booth

    4. Unbundling value chains in finance: offshore labor and the geographies of finance

      5. Jana M. Kleibert

    5. FinTech: The dis/re-intermediation of finance?

      6. Karen P.Y. Lai

      Part E. Regulation and governance

    6. Legal Foundations of Finance

      7.

      Katharina Pistor

    7. Central Banks and the Governance of Monetary Space

      8. David S. Bieri

    8. Financial geography, imbalances and crises: Excavating the spatial dimensions of asymmetric power

      9. Gary Dymski

    9. Credit Rating Agencies in the Era of Neoliberal Capitalism

      10. Stefanos Ioannou

    10. Offshore and the Political and Legal Geography of Finance: 1066-2020 AD

      11. Daniel Haberly

      Part F. Finance, development and the environment

    11. Finance and Development in sub-Saharan Africa

      12. Susan Newman

    12. The renewable energy revolution: Risk, investor and financing structures – with case studies from Germany and Kenya

      13. Britta Klagge

    13. Finance and Climate Change

      14.

      Patrick Bigger and Wim Carton

    14. Environmental Sustainability and Finance

    Janelle Knox-Hayes, Jungwoo Chun, and Priyanka deSouza

    Index

    Biography

    Janelle Knox-Hayes is an Associate Professor of Economic Geography and Planning and Head of the Environmental Policy and Planning Group in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT.

    Dariusz Wójcik is a Professor of Economic Geography at the School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford University, and Fellow of St Peter’s College, Oxford.

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