Financial Elites and Transnational Business : Who Rules the World?
Georgina. Murray
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Cheltenham : : Edward Elgar Publishing, , 2012.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (280 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Capital mobilization, transnational structures, and capitalist classes; 2. The financialization of global corporate ownership; 3. Capital relations and directorate interlocking: the global network in 2007; 4. The transnational capitalist class and tax havens; 5. The Business Roundtable and the transnational capitalist class; 6. Transnational business networks in the Eurozone: a focus on four major stock exchange indices; 7. The transnational class in Mexico: new and old mechanisms structuring corporate networks (1981-2010). - 8. National and transnational structuring of the British corporate elite9. Australia's ruling class: a local elite, a transnational capitalist class orbits of both?; 10. Outward bound: transnational capitalism in China; 11. Corporate futures and the consequences from the top end of town; Index. - This absorbing book addresses the seemingly simple question of who rules the world by linking it to debates about who owns the world and what this means for the dynamics of global power distribution. Several expert contributors focus on global issues, including the role of transnational finance, interlocking directorates, ownership and tax havens. Others examine how these issues at the global level interact with the regional or nation state level in the US, the UK, China, Australia and Mexico. The books scrutinizes globalization from a fresh, holistic perspective, examining the relationship be
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| ISBN | 9780857935519
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