Suchergebnisse

Cover; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 -- Adventures of Capitalism; Chapter 2 -- The Rise of Soft Capitalism; Chapter 3 -- The Place of Complexity; Chapter 4 -- Virtual Capitalism: The Globalization of Reflexive Business Knowledge; Chapter 5 -- Cultures on the Brink: Re-engineering the Soul of Capitalism on a Global Scale; Chapter 6 -- It's the Romance, Not the Finance, that Makes the Business Worth Pursuing: Disclosing a New Market Culture; Chapter 7 -- Cultures in the New Economy; Chapter 8 -- The Automatic Production of space

The links between the British economy and the world economy are becoming more important every year. As a result, change in Britain and the rest of the world is now directly related as never before. But British research on urban and regional change has been slow to take account of this fact and, in general, remains committed to a view of the world in which the British economy stops at the shoreline of Britain and the world economy appears as a set of 'external factors' or 'macrotrends in the economy', or 'international processes' that are conjured up by the outside world and then fed into the British economy as something called 'restructuring'. This parochial point of view, so inappropriate in the modern world, is illustrated by the Economic and Social Research Council Environment and Planning Committee document, "Research policy and priorities".

The European Community's attempts to restructure the European financial services sector, as part of the Single European Market programme, are examined. These attempts are seen to embody impulses towards the liberalisation and consolidation of the sector which are often at odds. The authors examine the state regulation of money and financial institutions, consider the chief tendencies towards liberalisation and the opposing tendencies towards consolidation, and speculate on the outcome of the programme, especially on the struggle between finance and financial capital models of state regulation of money and finance.