Incorporating climate change considerations in central bank decisions has been fraught with legal and technical controversies. Legal, because interpretations of central bank mandates in relation to sustainability has been widely cited as hurdles to the discussion of climate change; and technical,...

This book uses the epochal events of the financial crisis and Brexit to examine post-2008 developments in international financial centres. It considers the hierarchy of financial centres, the medium-term effects of the financial crisis, and the rise of new technology

The academic community seems divided into two camps: those who emphasise global finance and capital market integration and those who emphasise the economic geography of distinctively local regimes of accumulation. In the first instance, flows of capital and the corrosive forces of global...

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