Im ausgehenden zwanzigsten Jahrhundert hat sich der Finanzmarkt zu einem eigenen Industriezweig entwickelt - der Kernindustrie, die alle anderen Zweige formt und beeinflußt. Dieses fortgeschrittene Lehrbuch mit Beiträgen hervorragender Spezialisten erläutert die Geographie der internationalen Finanzströme, den gegenwärtig wichtigsten Aspekt der Wirtschaftsgeographie. (06/98)

Dr. Ron Martin is lecturer in Economic Geography at the University of Cambridge, where he is also a Fellow and Director of Studies in Geography at St. Catharine's College

Money and the Economic Landscape.
Stages of Banking Development and the Spatial Evolution of Financial Systems.
The Development of Financial Centres: Location, Information Externalities and Path Dependence.
Securing a Foothold in the Sands of Finance: Centralisation and Decentralisation of Monetary Structures.
Credit Flows and the Spatial Organisation of the Financial System: The UK and Germany.
The Restructuring of British Retail Finance Space.
Selling Off the State: Privatisation and the Space Economy of Shareholding.
Redrawing the Boundaries.
Private Pensions and Urban Development.
Financing Entreprenuership: Venture Capital and Regional Development in Europe and the USA.
Local Financial Systems and Regional Industrial Development: The Italian Case.
Corporate Recapitalisations and the Economic Landscape: Leveraged Buyouts in the Food Retail Sector.
International Banking Centres, Foreign Banks and the Space Economy.
Globalisation, Regulation and the Changing Organisation of Retail Banking in Britain and the USA.
The Crisis of Territorial Embeddedness of International Financial Markets.
Offshore Onshore: Re-Shaping the Financial Regulatory Landscape.
The Hypermobility of Capital and the Collapse of the Keynesian State.