Money and the Space Economy

by Martin, Ron

• ISBN13: 9780471983477
• ISBN10: 0471983470
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-03-12
• Publisher: WILEY

Summary

Money and the Space Economy Contributor list Pietro Alessandrini Leslie Budd Gordon Clark Sheila Dow Richard T. Harrison Alan Hudson Roger Lee Colin Mason Jane Pollard David J. Porteous Barney Warf Neil Wrigley Alberto Zazzaro Money is central to understanding the space economy. Not only does money itself have its own geographies, but these in turn help to shape the geographies of economic activity more generally. Across the global economy banking systems and money markets are being restructured. A new economic geography of money and finance is emerging, reflecting, among other things, the momentous changes that are taking place in the world's financial systems, particularly the impact of globalisation, deregulation, privatisation and technological change. Money and the Space Economy brings together leading geographers and economists working on money to highlight the changing geographies of banking, the forces underpinning and threatening international financial centres, the relationship between financial systems, business and the local economy, and the financial causes and consequences of the retreat of the state. With case studies drawn from United Kingdom, Europe and the United States, Money and the Space Economy redraws the map of local, regional, national and international financial spaces. Economic Geography/Business/Finance/Social Science

Author Biography

Dr. Ron Martin is lecturer in Economic Geography at the University of Cambridge, where he is also a Fellow and Director of Studies in Geography at St. Catharine’s College

Table of Contents

Money and the Economic Landscape.

Stages of Banking Development and the Spatial Evolution of Financial Systems.

The Development of Financial Centres: Location, Information Externalities and Path Dependence.

Securing a Foothold in the Sands of Finance: Centralisation and Decentralisation of Monetary Structures.

Credit Flows and the Spatial Organisation of the Financial System: The UK and Germany.

The Restructuring of British Retail Finance Space.

Selling Off the State: Privatisation and the Space Economy of Shareholding.

Redrawing the Boundaries.

Private Pensions and Urban Development.

Financing Entreprenuership: Venture Capital and Regional Development in Europe and the USA.

Local Financial Systems and Regional Industrial Development: The Italian Case.

Corporate Recapitalisations and the Economic Landscape: Leveraged Buyouts in the Food Retail Sector.

International Banking Centres, Foreign Banks and the Space Economy.

Globalisation, Regulation and the Changing Organisation of Retail Banking in Britain and the USA.

The Crisis of Territorial Embeddedness of International Financial Markets.

Offshore Onshore: Re-Shaping the Financial Regulatory Landscape.

The Hypermobility of Capital and the Collapse of the Keynesian State.