Title:
Atlas of finance : mapping the global story of money
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Publication Date:
2024
Publication Information:
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2024]
©2024
Physical Description:
xv, 223 pages : color illustrations ; color maps ; 29 cm
ISBN:
9780300253054
Abstract:
From the emergence of money in the ancient world to today's interconnected landscape of high-frequency trading and cryptocurrency, the story of finance has always taken place on an international stage. Finance is one of the most globalized and networked of human activities, and one of the most important social technologies ever invented. This volume, the first visually based book dedicated to finance, uses graphics and maps to bring the complex and abstract world of finance down to earth, showing how geography is fundamental for understanding finance, and vice versa. It illuminates the people--including Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes--who have shaped our thinking about global finance; brings to life the ways that place-specific histories, laws, regulations, and institutions influence finance; shows how finance relates to innovation, globalization, and environmental change; and details how finance plays a key part in drawing the landscape of uneven development, inequality, and instability. The Atlas of Finance, with word and image, will change the way you view both your money and your world.
Contents:
Introduction: Demystifying Finance -- 1. History & Geography. Clay Foundations ; Metallic Money ; Sequere Pecuniam ; Yuan and its Ancestors ; Treasury of the World ; Who Paid For This? ; Adam Smith, Financial Geographer ; Money in a World of Contradictions ; Finance as a Beauty Contest ; Made in the USA -- 2. Assets & Markets. Markets at a glance ; Unchanging Currencies ; Pooling Risk in Paris ; Boomtown ; Infrastructure Monopoly ; For Few Eyes Only ; The Beautiful Game ; Migrating Money ; Persistent Patterns ; A Cautionary Tale -- 3. Investors & Investments. The Safest Bets ; The Only Free Lunch in Finance ; Home Bias ; The Rideshare Race ; Retirement (In)security ; The Pension Grinder ; Who Owns the Mall? ; An Inverted World ; Sovereign Nest Eggs ; China's World -- 4. Intermediation & Technology. The Rainmakers ; Cornering the Market ; What the SPAC? ; Maritime Risk Sharing ; Hailey's Calculation ; The Quantified Consumer ; A Need For Speed ; Smartphone Finance ; Central Bank Digital Currencies ; Powering Bitcoin -- 5. Cities & Centers. Venice to London ; Taking the Lead ; Financial Centers ; Rising Dragon ; Mushrooming Mergers ; Islands of Wealth ; All Roads Lead to Bengaluru ; Mosaic of Islamic Finance ; London's Pull ; Fintech Planet -- 6. Bubbles & Crises. A World of Crises ; Theories of Instability ; The Big One ; Financial Crises Making Headlines ; Calling Time on Northern Rock ; When Innovation Blew Up the US Economy ; The European Crisis ; Solvency over Solidarity ; Toxic Loans ; How to Rob a Bank -- 7. Regulation & Governance. Warning Signs ; (G)local Governance ; Bank of Banks ; Legal Dominion ; Offshore Plumbing ; The World's Laundromats ; The Global Financial Services Megastores ; Judging from Afar ; Change at the Top ; People's Power -- Society & Environment. Finance and Inequality ; Microfinance ; Learning Money ; Weaponizing Finance ; Mining the Future ; A Drop in the Ocean? ; The Alipay Ant Forest ; Is Your Portfolio on Fire? ; Lofty Goals ; Where is Money Going?
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Language:
English
