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Financialization at Work
  • Language: en

Financialization at Work

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Social scientists have begun debating financialization in the late 2000s much as they debated globalization in the 1990s, and this important book prepares the way by allowing readers to (re)define financialization for themselves.

What a waste
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 129

What a waste

This is the first ever book to analyse outsourcing – contracting out public services to private business interests. It is an unacknowledged revolution in the British economy, and it has happened quietly, but it is creating powerful new corporate interests, transforming the organisation of government at all levels, and is simultaneously enriching a new business elite and creating numerous fiascos in the delivery of public services. What links the brutal treatment of asylum-seeking detainees, the disciplining of welfare benefit claimants, the profits effortlessly earned by the privatised rail companies, and the fiasco of the management of security at the 2012 Olympics? In a word: outsourcing. This book, by the renowned research team at the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change in Manchester, is the first to combine ‘follow the money’ research with accessibility for the engaged citizen, and the first to balance critique with practical suggestions for policy reform.

Central Banking at a Crossroads
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 292

Central Banking at a Crossroads

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-12-01
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  • Publisher: Anthem Press

This book reflects on the innovations that central banks have introduced since the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers to improve their modes of intervention, regulation and resolution of financial markets and financial institutions. Authors from both academia and policy circles explore these innovations through four approaches: ‘Bank Capital Regulation’ examines the Basel III agreement; ‘Bank Resolution’ focuses on effective regimes for regulating and resolving ailing banks; ‘Central Banking with Collateral-Based Finance’ develops thought on the challenges that market-based finance pose for the conduct of central banking; and ‘Where Next for Central Banking’ examines the trajectory of central banking and its new, central role in sustaining capitalism.

The Routledge Companion to Banking Regulation and Reform
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 436

The Routledge Companion to Banking Regulation and Reform

The Routledge Companion to Banking Regulation and Reform provides a prestigious cutting edge international reference work offering students, researchers and policy makers a comprehensive guide to the paradigm shift in banking studies since the historic financial crisis in 2007. The transformation in banking over the last two decades has not been authoritatively and critically analysed by the mainstream academic literature. This unique collection brings together a multi-disciplinary group of leading authorities in the field to analyse and investigate post-crisis regulation and reform. Representing the wide spectrum of non-mainstream economics and finance, topics range widely from financial in...

Corporate Governance and Investment Management
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 318

Corporate Governance and Investment Management

Shareholder engagement with publicly listed companies is often seen as a key means to monitor corporate malpractices. In this book, the authors examine the corporate governance roles of key institutional investors in UK corporate equity, including pension funds, insurance companies, collective investment funds, hedge and private equity funds and sovereign wealth funds. They argue that institutions’ corporate governance roles are an instrument ultimately shaped by private interests and market forces, as well as law and regulatory obligations, and that policy-makers should not readily make assumptions regarding their effectiveness, or their alignment with public interest or social good.

After the Great Complacence
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

After the Great Complacence

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-09-29
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  • Publisher: OUP Oxford

What is the relationship between the financial system and politics? In a democratic system, what kind of control should elected governments have over the financial markets? What policies should be implemented to regulate them? What is the role played by different elites - financial, technocratic, and political - in the operation and regulation of the financial system? And what role should citizens, investors, and savers play? These are some of the questions addressed in this challenging analysis of the particular features of the contemporary capitalist economy in Britain, the USA, and Western Europe. The authors argue that the causes of the financial crisis lay in the bricolage and innovatio...

Central Banking at a Crossroads
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 292

Central Banking at a Crossroads

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-12-01
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  • Publisher: Anthem Press

This book reflects on the innovations that central banks have introduced since the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers to improve their modes of intervention, regulation and resolution of financial markets and financial institutions. Authors from both academia and policy circles explore these innovations through four approaches: ‘Bank Capital Regulation’ examines the Basel III agreement; ‘Bank Resolution’ focuses on effective regimes for regulating and resolving ailing banks; ‘Central Banking with Collateral-Based Finance’ develops thought on the challenges that market-based finance pose for the conduct of central banking; and ‘Where Next for Central Banking’ examines the trajectory of central banking and its new, central role in sustaining capitalism.

Advances in Information Systems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 630

Advances in Information Systems

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Advances in Information Systems, ADVIS 2004, held in Izmir, Turkey in October 2004. The 61 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 203 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on databases and datawarehouses, data mining and knowledge discovery, Web information systems development, information systems development and management, information retrieval, parallel and distributed data processing, multimedia information systems, information privacy and security, evolutionary and knowledge-based systems, software engineering and business process modeling, and network management.

Understanding Green Finance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 243

Understanding Green Finance

Exploring how green finance has become a key strategy for the financial industry in the wake of the 2007-08 financial crisis, this timely book critically assesses the current dominant forms of neoliberal green finance. Understanding Green Finance delivers a pioneering analysis of the topic, covering the essential tenets of green finance with an emphasis on critical approaches to mainstream views and presenting alternatives insights and perspectives.

Computer and Information Sciences - ISCIS 2004
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1027

Computer and Information Sciences - ISCIS 2004

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, ISCIS 2004, held in Kemer-Antalya, Turkey in October 2004. The 99 revised full papers presented together with an invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 335 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on artificial intelligence and machine learning, computer graphics and user interfaces, computer networks and security, computer vision and image processing, database systems, modeling and performance evaluation, natural language processing, parallel and distributed computing, real-time control applications, software engineering and programming, and theory of computing.