Global Finance in the New Century

SASHA C. BREGER PhD Candidate, Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver, USA DICK BRYAN Associate Professor, University of Sydney, Australia NICK COATES Senior Adjunct Researcher UWS and Senior Policy Officer Financial Services, School of Economics and Finance (UWS), University of Western Sydney and Australian Consumers' Association, Australia MARY CONDON Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada GAeRARD DUMAeNIL Research Director, Universite de Paris X-Nanterre, France MARIEKE DE GOEDE Lecturer in Political History and International Relations, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands JULIE FROUD Reader in Accounting, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK KIRYL HAIDUK PhD Candidate, International Relations and European Studies, Central European University, Hungary MARTIJN KONINGS York University, Canada ADAM LEAVER Lecturer in Business Analysis, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK DOMINIQUE LAeVY CEPREMAP-ENS, Paris, France DONALD MACKENZIE Professor of Sociology, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Edinburgh, UK RICHARD MURPHY Director, Tax Research, LLP, UK JOHN NUGAeE Director, State Street Global Advisors Ltd., UK RONEN PALAN Professor of International Relations and Politics, International Relations Department, University of Sussex, UK AVINASH PERSAUD Chairman, Intelligence Capital Limited, UK MICHAEL RAFFERTY Senior Lecturer, Graduate School of Business, University of Wollongong, Australia OR RAVIV PhD Candidate, University of Sussex, UK KAREL WILLIAMS Director of ESRC CRESC, Manchester Business School and Centre for Research in Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC), University of Manchester, UK WEI ZHANG PhD Student, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK

This edited book deepens our understanding of the complex processes and mechanisms of financial expansion and the effects of this expansion in the global political economy. It brings together perspectives from political economy, finance, accountancy, law and sociology to consider the central question of how financial power works.This edited book deepens our understanding of the complex processes and mechanisms of financial expansion and the effects of this expansion in the global political economy. It brings together perspectives from political economy, finance, accountancy, law and sociology to consider the central question of how financial power works.