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The Re-Emergence of Global Capital
Gary Burn
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Description for The Re-Emergence of Global Capital
Hardcover. Gary Burn examines how in 1950s London, City bankers invented a new form of money and escaped offshore, beyond the jurisdiction of monetary authority. This is the story of the Eurodollar and the re-emergence of global capital. It tells how the City discarded sterling and reclaimed its historic role as the world's foremost financial centre. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCLF; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 428.
Gary Burn examines how in 1950s London, City bankers invented a new form of money and escaped offshore, beyond the jurisdiction of monetary authority. This is the story of the Eurodollar and the re-emergence of global capital. It tells how the City discarded sterling and reclaimed its historic role as the world's foremost financial centre.
Gary Burn examines how in 1950s London, City bankers invented a new form of money and escaped offshore, beyond the jurisdiction of monetary authority. This is the story of the Eurodollar and the re-emergence of global capital. It tells how the City discarded sterling and reclaimed its historic role as the world's foremost financial centre.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
231
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230001985
SKU
V9780230001985
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Ref
99-15
About Gary Burn
GARY BURN is a Visiting Research Fellow at the GPE Centre, University of Sussex, UK. He has recently published work on the German economy and the evolution of offshore finance. He won the Robert Cox Award in 2000 for his article The State the City and the Euromarkets.
Reviews for The Re-Emergence of Global Capital
'...this is a valuable book that is well-researched and highly readable...It makes an important contribution to our understanding of the development of the international financial system...' - Ranald Michie, Bankhistorisches Archiv