Global Finance in the New Century

Global Finance in the New Century: Deregulation and Beyond; L.Assassi, A.Nesvetailova & D.Wigan PART 1 Globalization, Efficient Markets and Arbitrage; D.Mackenzie Financial Derivatives: Bubble or Anchor?; D.Bryan & M.Rafferty Offshore Financial Centres, Hot Money and Hedge Funds: A Network Analysis of International Capital Flows; N.Coates & M.Rafferty Who Derivatives Markets Serve? Rhetoric Vs Reality; S.C.Breger PART 2 The Quiet Panic about Financial Illiteracy; J.Froud, A.Leaver, K.Williams & W.Zhang The Feminization of Pensions? Gender, Political Economy and Defined Contribution Pensions; M.Condon The Alchemy of Banks: The Consumer Credit Industry after Deregulation Central Europe in the EU Embrace; O.Raviv Finance and Management in the Dynamics of Social Change: Contrasting Two Trajectories: United States and France; G.Duménil & D.Lévy PART 3 Monetarism in the US: The Development of New Forms of Federal Reserve Control over Banks and Financial Markets; M.Konings The Political Economy of Post-Soviet Offshorisation; K.Haiduk Tax, Subsidies and Profit: Business and the Modern State; R.Palan & R.Murphy Financial Regulation and the War on Terror; M.de Goede Redesigning Financial Regulation; J.Nugee & A.Persaud Bibliography