"Banking Across Boundaries. Placing Finance in Capitalism" – это увлекательный вклад в современные дебаты о банковской индустрии, который предлагает уникальную перспективу на ее географическое и концептуальное "местоположение". Книга прослеживает эволюцию связей между ними и раскрывает, как наши представления о "продуктивности" банковской деятельности развивались наряду с изменением мест банковской деятельности.
Эта книга вносит оригинальный вклад в срочные дебаты, которые происходят в банковской индустрии в связи с текущим экономическим кризисом. Она предлагает уникальную перспективу на географическое и социальное понятие "местоположения" банковской индустрии, объединяя теоретические подходы политической экономии с современной литературой о перформативности экономики.
Книга описывает глобализацию западных банков и анализирует, как представления о продуктивности банковского сектора менялись в процессе эволюции западной экономической теории. Она анализирует социальную концептуализацию природы и ценности банковской индустрии, освещая не только то, как экономические идеи "выполняются" и формируют экономический мир, но и то, как сами эти идеи всегда являются продуктом определенных экономических реалий.
Banking Across Boundaries places finance in the centre of contemporary capitalist debates, traces the underlying connections between geography and the understanding bank transactions, explores how our current ideas of prosperity intersect with the changing banks' locations, and offers original contributions to the ongoing debates concerning banking in modern economies.
Banking Across Boundaries starts by reconsidering the philosophical distinction between place and space. Deepening upon Henri Lefebvre's critique of 'offshore' and the removal of real banks from the metropolis, the book argues for the specificity of geographical location, offering 'place' as an alternative to abstract 'space'. Christophers suggests complex and multifaceted territory of jurisdictions as the critical concepts for understanding transnational capital accumulation.
The book looks at how autocracies and counter-hegemonic groups (Latin American and Chinese state financial elites) have entered the international arena. Christophers also considers various attempts to rebuild banking systems by aligning them with local needs, and it highlights differing elements of national initiation and refortalization projects. He identifies a tension between countries lacking sovereignty over their territories and financial capital, such as South Africa during apartheid, local and indigenous reformers seeking partial sovereignty through token investment in microfinance institutions buoyed by international agencies, empires and transnationals, as counterexamples to western hegemonic models of development.
From a slightly different perspective, Christophers presents a critical analysis of how political economic theories of free markets, constituting both principles and axioms of mainstream neoliberalism, failed to inhibit the crisis condition currently witnessed. The book also attempts to show how representationalist and normative economic thinking failed to anticipate the future.
Christophers' analytical approach attempts to integrate the work of classical theorists from political economy into a framework of contemporary studies looking at the constructivist power of economic reasoning, which produces reality and 'economic order' that Alex Callinicos criticizes.
To do so the book moves between sites of political economy, historiography and geography.
Bringing into focus the distinctive nature of Welsh banking and Welsh people's attitudes, Christophers draws on original empirical studies, offering a rich layer of well-researched detail. Given that his focus is on Britain, he has center ed hypotheses around the process of marketization and de-regulation of banks in Wales in comparison with those in England. These are relevant for a much wider social theory of neoliberalist finance and post-Keynesian thought.
Banking Across Boundaries presents a compelling critique of modern debates about banking, offering a unique view of its spatial and conceptual 'location'. Christopher traces the dynamic links between these two dimensions, showing how notions of 'banking productivity' have changed alongside the changing locations of banking activities. This book is an original contribution to urgent discussions surrounding banking set off by the present economic crisis.
It provides a unique treatment of the geographical and socially constructed concept of the 'location' of banking. It draws upon theoretical approaches to political economy and contemporary literatures on the performative nature of economics, delving into the globalisation of Western banking and analysing how conceptions of the productivity of the banking system have transformed over time within Western economic thought.
The book analyses how society conceptualises the nature and value of the banking option and it explores how economic notions 'perform' and shape the socioeconomic landscape, while also being shaped by specific economic realities.
Электронная Книга «Banking Across Boundaries. Placing Finance in Capitalism» написана автором Brett Christophers в году.
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Язык: Английский
ISBN: 9781118295519
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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 realities
