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Book SynopsisThe principal message of this book is that international financial enterprises must be reoriented towards funding productive activities rather than potentially destabilizing speculation. The effects of financial sector operations are addressed with serious warnings that the dangers of speculative destabilization are increasing as regulatory and market discipline gradually weakens.
The Structural Foundations of International Finance examines the ways in which national economies, especially those of industrialized countries, are affected by the operations of international financial markets. Although these markets provide productive funding, there is also much speculative trading in stocks and currencies which can cause booms, slumps and hinder recovery. The authors advocate entrepreneurial coordination by productive enterprises for balanced and stable growth, with reduced risks of financial crises and recessions.
This topical and highly engaging book will be invaluable for academics and students of business, economics, political economy, international relations and law.
Table of ContentsContents: Foreword Preface 1. Economic Structures and Finance 2. From Overlending to Crisis, to a New International Financial Regime? Lessons from the 1990s 3. Analytical Perspectives on the Varieties of Capitalism and Structural Interdependencies: Implications for Multinational Business Finance 4. Financial Institutions and Financial Markets: The Emergence of a New Class of Universal Banks 5. International Banking Regulation 6. Technology, Productivity and Structural Change 7. Cracks in the Façade: American Economic and Financial Structures after the Boom 8. Industry and Finance in the EU: Integration, Enlargement and Economic Performance 9. Japanese Economic Structures and Finance: Characteristics and Causes of the Current Slowdown 10. Real Economies and Financial Sectors in Industrializing Countries 11. International Structural Cooperation and Financial Architecture Index
