Global Finance and Urban Living - A Study of Metropolitan Change (Hardcover)

"Global Finance and Urban Living" provides an account of the momentous changes in the organization of finance capital that occurred in the 1980s. But it never contents itself with a mere record of events. The changes in finance are related to changes in urban forms, notably metropolitan lifestyles and aesthetics. The first part of the book builds a framework of analyzing the material consequences of global finance. Chapters are devoted to unravelling the byzantine relationship between de-regulated and liberalized international finance and the effect on national economies. This relationship, other chapters explain, rests on the nature of new financial instruments, how optimal decisions are made about them and the legal and political regulatory regime that has ensued. The second part relates how the complexity of the new financial regime affects, shapes and interacts with communities, lifestyles, architecture and the development and form of urban economies. The inter-disciplinary focus helps to provide a powerful account of metropolitan finance centre and what it feels like to live in it. This book should be of interest to students of urban studies, sociology, and economics.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	International Library of Sociology
Release date:	1992
First published:	1992
Editors:	Leslie Budd • Sam Whimster
Dimensions:	216 x 138mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	384
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-07097-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Urban communities Books > Business & Economics > Economics > International economics > International finance Books > Business & Economics > Finance & accounting > Finance > General Books > Money & Finance > General
LSN:	0-415-07097-X
Barcode:	9780415070973

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