Transnational Financial Associations and the Governance of Global Finance: Assembling Wealth and Power

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Taylor & francis

Transnational Financial Associations and the Governance of Global Finance: Assembling Wealth and Power : Routledge : 9780415659727 : 0415659728 : 04 Feb 2013 : The role of business in global governance is now widely recognized, but exploration of its role in global financial governance has been more haphazard than systematic. This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the role of transnational financial associations (TFAs) in the organization of global finance. This book develops three theoretical themes of assemblage, functionality, and power as enrolment. These themes challenge approaches that treat financial power as emanating from a single location or force. Whilst existing approaches tend to treat TFAs as irrelevant or as merely transmitting power originating elsewhere, this book argues that power must be created by painstakingly assembling actors, networks, and objects that are often quite autonomous and working at cross purposes to one another?a process in which TFA

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