Adam D Dixon

The New Geography of Capitalism

Firms, Finance, and Society

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents an accessible and up to date analysis of globalization and the consequences for global financial markets, firms, and nation states. It will be a useful guide for researchers and students across the social sciences.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9780199668236
• ISBN-10: 019966823X
• Artikelnr.: 48467347

Autorenporträt

Adam D. Dixon is a senior lecturer in economic geography at the University of Bristol. His research focuses on comparative economic geography, the geography of finance, and the political economy of institutional investors. He is co-author with Gordon L. Clark and Ashby H.B. Monk of Sovereign Wealth Funds: Legitimacy, Governance and Global Power (2013, PUP) and co-editor with the same of Managing Financial Risks: From Global to Local (2009, OUP). He is a visiting scholar at Stanford University's Global Projects Center and has held visiting positions at Heidelberg University in Germany and Maastricht University in the Netherlands. He has a D.Phil from the University of Oxford, and master's and bachelor's degrees, respectively, from L'Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) and The George Washington University in Washington, DC.

Inhaltsangabe

1: The Geography of Finance
2: One World of Production?
3: Variegated Capitalism and the Firm
4: Comparing Financial Systems in a Global Economy
5: Financialization and the Welfare State
6: Corporate Transformation and Employee Pensions
7: The Global Financial Crisis and Beyond