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Banking Across Boundaries : Placing Finance in Capitalism

ISBN: 9781444338294 | 1444338293

Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Pub. Date: 3/25/2013

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Summary Table of Contents Author Biography

The author's unique perspective on the geographical and conceptual 'placement' of the banking industry is a compelling contribution to the contemporary debate about the industry. It traces the evolving links between the two, revealing how our notions of banking 'productiveness' have evolved alongside the shifting loci of banking activity. Unique combination of theoretical approaches from political economy and the contemporary literature on the performativity of economics An original voice in the urgent debate on capital and banking reignited by... MORE the current economic crisis Analyzes the social conceptualization of the nature - and value - of the banking industry Illuminates the contingency of economic ideas, shaped by mutable economic realities at the same time as giving form to our evolving conception of the economic environment

Beginning with the assertion that critiques of the banking industry's economic productiveness are manifestations of a problematic duality that imposes socially constructed oppositions between productive and non-productive and 'real' and financial economies, this unique synthesis of theoretical approaches relates two historical narratives. It details the processes by which Western banking has internationalized, and analyzes how representations of the banking sector's 'productiveness', or otherwise, have taken different forms throughou t the evolution of Western economic theory, mutating in tandem with the latter's development. Examining the relationship between these two narratives, the author sheds light on how we, as a society, 'place' banks conceptually; on how banks, as economic institutions, have 'placed' themselves geographically; and on how these two modes of 'placement' have become increasingly intertwined. In the process, the book illuminates not only how economic ideas 'perform' and shape the economic world, but how those ideas are themselves always products of particular economic realities. This original contribution to the perennial debate over the financial services industry will be read with added urgency by scholars spurred on in their analyses by the contemporary financial crisis.

This compelling contribution to contemporary debates about the banking industry offers a unique perspective on its geographical and conceptual �placement�. It traces the evolving links between the two, revealing how our notions of banking �productiveness� have evolved alongside the shifting loci of banking activity.

An original contribution to the urgent debates taking place on banking sparked by the current economic crisis
Offers a unique perspective on the geographical and social concept of �placement� of the banking industry
Combines theoretical approaches from political economy with contemporary literature on the performativity of economics
Details the globalization of Western banking, and analyzes how representations of the banking sector�s productiveness have shifted throughout the evolution of Western economic theory
Analyzes the social conceptualization of the nature � and value � of the banking industry
Illuminates not only how economic ideas �perform� and shape the economic world, but how those ideas are themselves always products of particular economic realities

List of Figures viii

List of Abbreviations ix

Acknowledgments x

Introduction 1

Part I Worlds Apart: Before Keynes 25

1 The Birth of Economic Productiveness 27

2 Instrumental Internationalism 57

Part II Worlds Aligned: From the Great Depression to the Eve of the Big Bang 101

3 Enclosing the Unproductive 103

4 America, and Boundaries Breached 146

Part III Co-Constituted Worlds: The Age of Financialization? 185

5 Layering the Logics of Free Trade in Banking 1... MORE87

6 Anaemic Geographies of Productive Finance 229

Afterword 275

Index 282

Brett Christophers�is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Economic Geography and the Institute for Housing and Urban Research at the University of Uppsala, Sweden. He holds degrees from the Universities of Oxford, UK, British Columbia, Canada, and Auckland, New Zealand, and is the author of�Positioning the Missionary: John Booth Good and the Confluence of Cultures in Nineteenth-Century British Columbia (1998) and Envisioning Media Power: On Capital and Geographies of Television (2009).

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