Respatialising Finance : Power, Politics and Offshore Renminbi Market Making in London

RESPATIALISING FINANCEâ€In Respatialising Finance Sarah Hall uses the internationalisation of the Chinese Renminbi (RMB) to work through a sympathetic conceptual and empirical critique of prevailing analyses of International Financial Centres (IFCs). Her conceptual (re)framing stresses the politics, institutions and economics of IFCs and will be essential reading for all social scientists interested in the dynamism of contemporary finance and financial centres.'Professor Jane Pollard, Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS), Newcastle University, UKâ€Through detailed study of Chinese RMB internationalisation and combining analytical insights from economic geography, sociology, and international political economy, Sarah Hall shows why offshore networks anchored in territories such as the City of London are both core to global monetary and financial landscapes, and provide a key terrain for state power and politics.'Professor Paul Langley, Department of Geography, Durham University,

the dynamic and crisis-prone nature of global finance. [Publisher's Text]

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