Global Finance: An Overview

Mark Triffitt
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Mark Triffitt: University of Melbourne, Australia

Chapter 12 in Handbook on International Political Economy, 2012, pp 177-193 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: AbstractMoney makes the world go round, or so the saying goes. It has a neat ring about it, suggesting that the laws of global finance, like gravity and momentum, have a Newtonian certainty about them. Certainly, the collapse of communism and central state planning in the early 1990s left only one set of economic rules with which to organise global financial flows. And so for the last twenty years or so, the world, without the limits that rival ideologies have historically imposed on capitalism, has embarked on a radical exploration of globalised finance…

Keywords: Political Economy; International Political Economy; Industrial Revolution; Liberal Capitalism; Markets; Production; Consumption; Trade; Finance; Globalization; Work; North/South; Gender; Environment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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