Book contents
- Critical Junctures in Mobile Capital
- Critical Junctures in Mobile Capital
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Sovereign Nations and the Governance of International Finance
- 2 Coping with the Dangerous Component of Capital Flows and Asia’s Ineffective Cooperation
- 3 How Mobile Capital Plays Off Democracy
- 4 Mobile Capital as the Ultimate Form of War Finance
- 5 Capital Moves Financially
- 6 International Money after the Crisis
- 7 Beware of Financialization!
- 8 Lagoon Immobility
- 9 Impacts of Mobile Capital’s ‘Convenient Reverse Logic’
- 10 Imagine
- 11 Money, State and Capital
- 12 Superdiversity, Exploitation and Migrant Workers
- 13 The Bitcoin or the Reality of a Waking Dream
- 14 Capital Mobility and the Fragmentation of Monetary Sovereignty
- 15 Complementary Currencies as Weapons in Times of Financial Instability
- Index
- References
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 February 2018
Book contents
- Critical Junctures in Mobile Capital
- Critical Junctures in Mobile Capital
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Sovereign Nations and the Governance of International Finance
- 2 Coping with the Dangerous Component of Capital Flows and Asia’s Ineffective Cooperation
- 3 How Mobile Capital Plays Off Democracy
- 4 Mobile Capital as the Ultimate Form of War Finance
- 5 Capital Moves Financially
- 6 International Money after the Crisis
- 7 Beware of Financialization!
- 8 Lagoon Immobility
- 9 Impacts of Mobile Capital’s ‘Convenient Reverse Logic’
- 10 Imagine
- 11 Money, State and Capital
- 12 Superdiversity, Exploitation and Migrant Workers
- 13 The Bitcoin or the Reality of a Waking Dream
- 14 Capital Mobility and the Fragmentation of Monetary Sovereignty
- 15 Complementary Currencies as Weapons in Times of Financial Instability
- Index
- References
Summary
An introduction to the concepts of mobile capital and critical junctures goes to the central aims of the Volume. It does not eulogize the ‘latest’, or spot a critical ‘juncture’ from yesterday, since any outcome is unpredictable. The mainly ‘new’ factor in the primary symbiotic relation between nation states and bank money creation in capitalism is the development of democratic procedures in the twentieth century. A lack of understanding of money is compared to obvious recognition of the principal world threats in nuclear warfare and climate change, and awareness of their causes. Reasons are canvassed for formidable silences over money’s social logic and interminable shifts in conflicts between debtors, creditors and governments. Rules are evaded, crises brushed over, war finance ignored, yet labour tries to resist this social logic. The global structure of money tends to over-ride most countries’ efforts to stem dangers, and disallow social movement activism. Each chapter’s original contribution to these themes and the authors’ excellent approaches (sociology, politics and heterodox economics) are given an overall logic for opening debates about the successes and failures in money’s promises and dangers; the winners and the losers in this major social division
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- Critical Junctures in Mobile Capital , pp. 1 - 37Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018
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