BOOK COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION -- MONEY -- Premodern money -- Commodity money -- Money of account -- State credit money -- Virtual money -- MONEY AND SPACE -- MONEY AND ITS INTERPRETATIONS -- CHAPTER 2 HE REGULATION OF GLOBAL MONEY -- INTRODUCTION -- THE ROLE OF REGULATION -- MONEY, THE INTERNATIONAL GOLD STANDARD AND THE SELF-REGULATING ECONOMY -- BRETTON WOODS: A MANAGED INTERNATIONAL REGULATORY ORDER -- REGULATION I N AN ERA OF GEO-ECONOMIC COMPETITION -- CHAPTER 3 LIBERALISATION AND CONSOLIDATION -- INTRODUCTION -- STATES AND MONEY: REGULATION, FINANCIAL CAPITAL AND THE RESTRUCTURING OF THE INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL SYSTEM -- Money and credit in the international financial system -- The first period : late 1940s to late 1950s -- The second period : late 1950s to late 1970s -- The third period : late 1970s to late 1980s -- Europe in the global financial system -- THE REMAKING OF EUROPEAN FINANCIAL CAPITAL: FINANCIAL SERVICES AND THE SINGLE MARKET -- The 1992 programme and financial services -- The financial services directives -- The institutional restructuring of financial capital in the EC -- A new spatial order? 1992 and the geography of European money -- FINANCIAL CONSOLIDATION IN EUROPE: MULTINATIONAL FINANCIAL REGULATION AND EUROPEAN MONETARY UNION -- CONCLUSIONS -- CHAPTER 4 'SEXY GREEDY' -- INTRODUCTION -- NIFS, STATE ACTION, BIG BANG -- Crisis and change -- From debt crisis to closed financial system -- Investor power -- The global centralisation offinancial services -- Technological change -- New markets and capital substitution in the NIFS -- Spatial centralisation of financial activity -- The impact of the NIFS on financial centres -- Deregulation in the City of London -- Impacts of deregulatory change in the City -- LABOUR MARKET, WEALTH, CLASS -- The City of London labour market.

The generation of wealth -- Class -- THE CITY IN THE SOUTH EAST -- The City as a wealth generator -- Spending on goods -- Spending on services -- CONCLUSIONS: AN UPPER-CLASS REVIVAL? -- CHAPTER 5 IN THE WAKE OF MONEY -- MAKING MONEY: THE GROWTH OF THE CITY OF LONDON THROUGH THE 1980S -- PAY IN THE CITY IN THE 1980S -- SPENDING MONEY -- THE COUNTRY HOUSE MARKET -- CONCLUSIONS -- CHAPTER 6 THE RESTRUCTURING OF THE UK FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY IN THE 1990s -- INTRODUCTION -- A REVERSAL OF FORTUNE -- The restructuring of the global financial services industry -- The restructuring of the United Kingdom financial system -- THE RESTRUCTURING OF FINANCIAL SERVICES FIRMS IN THE 1990S -- Labour market restructuring -- Corporate restructuring -- CONCLUSIONS -- CHAPTER 7 GEOGRAPHIES OF FINANCIAL EXCLUSION -- INTRODUCTION -- FINANCIAL EXCLUSION AND UNEVEN DEVELOPMENT -- THE CRISIS OF THE BRITISH FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY AND THE RISE OF FINANCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE WITHDRAWAL AND FINANCIAL… -- Opting for exclusion: the crisis of the British financial services industry in the 1990s -- RESISTING FINANCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE WITHDRAWAL AND COUNTERING FINANCIAL EXCLUSION -- The United States -- Resisting financial infrastructure withdrawal -- Countering financial exclusion-building an alternative financial infrastructure -- Britain -- Resisting financial infrastructure withdrawal in Britain -- Countering financial exclusion in Britain -- CONCLUSIONS -- CHAPTER 8 MONEY ORDER? -- INTRODUCTION -- TIME, SPACE, AND ECONOMIC DISCOURSE IN ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY -- DISCOURSES ON AND OF THE ECONOMY -- POST-MARXIST ECONOMIC DISCOURSES -- Regulation theory -- Neo-Gramscian political economy -- BRETTON WOODS AND THE GOLDEN AGE -- National monetary order? Regulation theory and the golden age -- A transnational historic bloc? Neo-Gramscian political economy and the golden age.

CONCLUSIONS -- CHAPTER 9 A PHANTOM STATE? -- INTRODUCTION -- POSTMODERN MONEY -- THE INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL SYSTEM: GOVERNING WITHOUT GOVERNMENT? -- THE 'TRADITIONAL' CITY: THE CITY OF LONDON PRE-BRETTON WOODS -- THE DE-TRADITIONALISED CITY: THE CITY OF LONDON POST-BRETTON WOODS -- CONCLUSIONS: A PHANTOM STATE? -- CHAPTER 10 NEW URBAN ERAS AND OLD TECHNOLOGICAL FEARS -- INTRODUCTION -- Introduction 1 -- Introduction 2 -- NEW ERAS, OLD ERRORS -- THE FIRST TELEMATIC CITY? THE CITY OF LONDON -- CONCLUSIONS -- Conclusion 1: The Order of the Scree -- Conclusion 2: Back to the Future? -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.