Bretton Wood conference: 1944 establish gobal
architecture for financial systems
Keynes and White drew the Bretton Woods Agreement
Blueprint for post war financial systems
fixed but adjustable exchange rates
Allowed for states to
control stable passage of
financial flows
Financial
architecture was
a dream or concept
of how flows
could move
between
territories with a
min. risk
TERRITORIALLY BASED
Governments agreed to establish rules and give
stability to international financial systems
System collapsed in early 1970s
Shift of power from state to
financial markets: flexible
exchange rates
NEO-LIBERALISM
a belief in free
market, corporate
power and free
regulation
Financial globalisation
Unregulated capitalism
Last 30 years
Thatcher, Reagan champions of neolib.
Pro liberalisation:
relationship bw.
territories and private
flow is very clear
If country play by the rules ,
financial flows will get in,
economic long term grow and
living standards for poorer
countires
Ending geography barriers
Anti liberalisation: Patnaik:
developing countries don't benefit
in the long term. They have to
offer tax benefits for private
investors
Interdependency between nation states
Martin 1994: power is with private
sector org. investment banks, IMF,
pernsion funds, capitalist countries (G7,
G8 or G10).
This is not ending
geography, it is
reconfiguring
geographies of
money, power and
dependency (Martin 94 p, 66)
FINANCIAL FLOWS
Financial flows create a set
if interdependencies btw.
territories (p. 92)
Financial power can reshape territories, like
poorer countries. financial resources can or
cannot be made available from the global
financial markets ( 92)
Financial markets are sophisticated combination of
technology and human resouces located in specific
territories (p72)
London, New York , Tokyo have 68% of world
capitalisation of stock, 60% of key global financial
markets - Concentration of power rather than dispersal,
p 75
Financial Centres are important
for the global finance to happen,
they are the territories, buildings,
face to face contact etc. (p76)
London and NY symbolise financial
power and strenght of private finance
(p.76)
OFC: Offshore Financial Centres show the
complex interdependency bw. territory
and financial flows shaping new territories
(p. 83)
OFC are considered
a problem for tax
evasion and
responsibility
(reading by Duncan
Bell Guardian p. 101)
Annotations:
Global responsibility linked to Young's concept of responsib. in a globalised world. (Barnett et al. 2008)
Global finc. markets and flows create a potential for
controlling and having economic power over
territories of states around the world (p. 72)
Digital technology allows
territory and flows to
interconnect and be
interdependent (p.74)
World Bank: shapes
economic policy at global
level
IMF: central coordinator of
international monetary
system