Crisis in Space: Ruminations on the Unevenness of Financialization and its Geographical Implications

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 242-257

  Engelen, Ewald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Crisis in space, ruminations on unevenness of financialization; Financialization theorists, disagreeing about precise causal pathways; Intraregional financial economic interconnections; IWGF; Spatial representation of inter financial centre capital flows; Striking difference in crisis perception, two sides of the Atlantic; Varieties of financialization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886846340     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118384497.ch15     Document Type: Chapter

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