1st Edition
Money/Space Geographies of Monetary Transformation
422 Pages
by
Routledge
424 Pages
by
Routledge
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Bringing together in one volume the most important writings of Andrew Leyshon and Nigel Thrift on money and finance, including the unpublished classic "Sexy-Greedy" this collection examines the economic, social and cultural manifestations that go to make up the multiple vision of money.
Money, it seems is the great God of our age. It is also an economy, a sociology, an anthropolgy and a geography. Linking money with the emergent patterns of global spatial order. Money/Space analyses the restructuring of financial markets in a range of spatial scales; global, national and local.
1 Introduction Part I High summer 2 The regulation of global money 3 Liberalisation and consolidation: the Single European Market and the remaking of European financial capital 4 ‘Sexy greedy’: the new international financial system, the City of London and the south east of England 5 In the wake of money: the City of London and the accumulation of Value Part II Fall 6 The restructuring of the UK financial services industry in the 1990s: a reversal of fortune? 7 Geographies of financial exclusion: financial abandonment in Britain and the United States 8 Money order? The discursive construction of Bretton Woods and the making and breaking of regulatory space (with Adam Tickell) 9 A phantom state? The de-traditionalisation of money, the international financial system and international financial centres 10 New urban eras and old technological fears: reconfiguring the goodwill of electronic things
Biography
Andrew Leyshon is Reader in Geography and Nigel Thrift is Professor of Geography, both at the University of Bristol.
