Martijn Konings (University of Sydney)

The Development of American Finance

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Produktbeschreibung

Most books on American finance emphasize the ways in which globalization and deregulation have promoted irresponsible speculation, excessive risk-taking and unsustainable levels of debt. This book argues that the American financial system is in fact far from a house of cards, but a proper edifice, built on foundations with their own distinctive points of strength and weakness.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 360g
• ISBN-13: 9781107681842
• ISBN-10: 1107681847
• Artikelnr.: 40555320

Autorenporträt

Martijn Konings is a Lecturer in the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. He has a Ph.D. from York University (Toronto) and has held postdoctoral research positions at York University and the University of Amsterdam. He has published widely in the field of political economy, including several edited volumes and articles in such journals as the New Left Review, the European Journal of Sociology, the Review of International Political Economy, Politics, the Review of International Studies, Critical Sociology and Theory and Event.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Finance from Britain to the American colonies
3. The financial dynamics of antebellum America
4. Contours of American finance
5. Contradictions of early twentieth-century financial expansion
6. The United States and international finance in the interwar period
7. New foundations for financial expansion
8. Contradictions of the dollar
9. The domestic expansion of American finance
10. Contradictions of late twentieth-century financial expansion
11. The neoliberal consolidation of American financial power
12. Contradictions of the present.