The financial services regime, comprising the General Agreement on Trade in Services and bilateral free trade and investment agreements, reflects the 'orthodoxy' of highly liberalized and lightly regulated financial markets that has supported the ascendancy of financialization. That orthodoxy...

chapter Introduction Taking services to market -- chapter 1 Reading the GATS as ideology -- chapter 2 How the GATS was won (and lost?) -- chapter 3 Trade-related development Case study 5 The WDR 2004: making services work -- chapter 4 The illusion of public services -- chapter 5 Ruling the...