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Although modern civilization revolves around money, the nature of money is paradoxical. It is nothing more than a representation of and medium for decentralized networks of social trust, but its production is controlled by highly centralized networks of firms, places, and governments, and there is never enough of it to go around. Moreover, given that the creation of money, as credit, is based on expectations, money is at its heart an instrument for human agency to change the future. However, the financial systems that produce money are deeply rooted in the past, and perpetuate themselves through history. Sticky Power seeks to deepen our understanding of the paradox of money by introducing a novel conceptual lens, Global Financial Networks, to cast new light on the geography, history, politics, and sociology of finance from the Middle Ages to the global financial crisis and beyond. It shows that the power of finance is inherently sticky: apparently new innovations such as offshore finance actually date back centuries, and global financial networks more broadly have adapted to the rise and fall of empires and the development of new technologies while changing surprisingly little in their basic character, or at most changing very slowly. Haberly and Wójcik argue that a recognition of the mechanics of this durability calls for a new approach to reforming finance--one less reactively focused on regulation, and more proactively focused on building new institutional systems with a long-term sticky power of their own.
Contents
1: Global Financial Networks: What They Are and Where They Come From
2: The Paradox of Sticky Power
3: The End of Investment Bank Capitalism? An Economic Geography of Financial Jobs and Power
4: The Dark Side of NY
5: From the Euromarket to the Great Inversion: The Political Geographic Paradox of Offshore Banking
6: Culprits or Bystanders? Offshore Securitization Centers and the Global Financial Crisis
7: Regional Blocks and Imperial Legacies: Mapping the Global Offshore FDI Network
8: Capitalist Tools in Socialist Hands ? China Mobile in the Global Financial Network
9: Asset Management as a Digital Platform Industry: A Global Financial Network Perspective
10: A Great Transformation?
