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This compelling contribution to contemporary debates about the banking industry offers a unique perspective on its geographical and conceptual ?placement?. It traces the evolving links between the two, revealing how our notions of banking ?productiveness? have evolved alongside the shifting loci of banking activity. An original contribution to the urgent debates taking place on banking sparked by the current economic crisis Offers a unique perspective on the geographical and social concept of ?placement? of the banking industry Combines theoretical approaches from political economy with contemporary literature on the performativity of economics Details the globalization of Western banking, and analyzes how representations of the banking sector?s productiveness have shifted throughout the evolution of Western economic theory Analyzes the social conceptualization of the nature ? and value ? of the banking industry Illuminates not only how economic ideas ?perform? and shape the economic world, but how those ideas are themselves always products of particular economic realitiesProduct Identifiers
PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons AND Sons LTD
ISBN-139781444338294
eBay Product ID (ePID)138515165
Product Key Features
Number of Pages302 Pages
Publication NameBanking Across Boundaries: Placing Finance in Capitalism
LanguageEnglish
SubjectEconomics, Geography & Geosciences, Finance
Publication Year2013
TypeTextbook
AuthorBrett Christophers
SeriesAntipode Book Series
Dimensions
Item Height238 mm
Item Weight522 g
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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorBrett Christophers