BANKING ACROSS BOUNDARIES by Brett Christophers ( 9781444338287 )

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Title:

BANKING ACROSS BOUNDARIES
PLACING FINANCE IN CAPITALISM

By:

Brett Christophers

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

1444338285

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9781444338287

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Publisher:

JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD

Pub. date:

22 February, 2013

Series:

Antipode Book Series

Pages:

302

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Synopsis:

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

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Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)

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