Global Politics and Financial Governance. (2010)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Names: Germain, Randall
• Contents: Cover; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Financial Governance and the State; Introduction: The Significance of the 2007-2009 Credit Crisis; Finance, Governance and the State; Dimensions of Financial Governance; Basic Elements of the Argument and Plan of the Book; Summary; Box: Select Financial Crises; 2 Forging Financial Governance; Introduction: Baring Brothers 1890; The International Gold Standard until World War I; War Finance; The Interwar Years: 1920-1939; War Finance and a New Financial Order; Summary; 3 Extending Financial Governance. Introduction: Bankhaus Herstatt and Franklin National Bank 1974Bretton Woods: 1945-1971; Post-Bretton Woods: 1972-1997; Reading History: Continuities and Discontinuities; Summary; 4 Financial Governance and the Great Freeze; Introduction: Lehman Brothers and AIG 2008; The New Global Finance and Governance Innovations: 1997-2007; The Great Freeze: 2007-2009; The Regulatory Response; Recalibrating the Public/Private Authority Nexus; Summary; 5 Global Politics and Financial Governance; Politics: National Authority, International Relations, Global Politics. Finance: Credit, Trust, Innovation, Institutions and MarketsGovernance: Norms, Authority, Power and Institutionalization; Taking Stock: Economic Demands, Political Imperatives and Governance Dynamics; Summary; 6 Power and Governance in the Global Financial System; International Relations and Financial Power; Financial Power and Emerging Markets; Financial Power, Political Accountability and Legitimacy; Financial Power and the International Financial Architecture; Summary; 7 Global Governance and National Responsibility; The Moral Case for a Deliberalized and Deglobalized World. The Technical/Political Case for a Deliberalized and Deglobalized WorldOur Role in the Great Debate over Financial Governance; Appendix: The Great Freeze; Bibliographic Essay: A Guide to Further Reading; Notes; References; Index.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2010
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 337; Public Policy/Economic Policy; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions; Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009; International finance; International finance; Economic Conditions; International Relations/General; Geopolitics; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 0230314198; 9780230314191
• Related ISBNs: 9780230278424; 0230278426; 9780230278431; 0230278434
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