Fixing global finance

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Malcolm Waters

The constraints of geography are shrinking and the world is becoming a single place. Globalization and the global society are increasingly occupying the centre of sociological debates. Widely discussed by journalists and a key goal for many businesses, globalization has become a buzz-word in recent years. In this extensively revised and restructured new edition of Globalization , Malcolm Waters provides a user-friendly introduction to the main arguments about the process, including a chapter on the critiques of the globalization thesis that have emerged since the first edition was published.

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Hal S. Scott, Philip A. Wellons

Written from the viewpoint of practitioners in law and finance, it provides an in-depth guide to the law and regulation of offshore markets and the international aspects of major financial markets in the USA, the EU, Japan and elsewhere. It discusses all issues bearing on the subject - law, regulation and government policy - and dealing with regulation of the banking, securities, derivatives and foreign exchange sectors.

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Barry Eichengreen

"Barry Eichengreen presents a brief, lucid book that tells the story of the international financial system over the past 150 years. Globalizing Capital is intended not only for economists but also for a general audience of historians, political scientists, professionals in government and business, and anyone with a broad interest in international economic and political relations. Eichengreen's work demonstrates that insights into the international monetary system and effective principles for governing it can result only if it is seen as a historical phenomenon extending from the gold standard period to the interwar period, then to Bretton Woods, and finally to the post-1973 period of fluctuating currencies."--BOOK JACKET.

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Ilene Grabel

An account of the significant though gradual, uneven, disconnected, ad hoc, and pragmatic innovations in global financial governance and developmental finance induced by the global financial crisis.--