Finance, Institutions and Industrial Change: Spacial Perspectives

by Eike W. Schamp (Editor)

Financial markets have undergone a radical change over the past decades. Deregulation, globalization, and the introduction of capitalism into Eastern Europe have changed the institutional limits of markets.
These changes had consequences for the spatial organisation of production and circulation which have rarely been considered by geographers or scholars of regional economics. The economic growth or decline of regions may be explained to a large extent by the strategic decision-making of large enterprises and governments with regard to funds, as well as by deregulation or the introduction of new institutional barriers.
This book takes a global perspective on government policy (for example in newly industrializing countries), new strategies of financial intermediates (such as raiders, banks, and property developers) and business behaviour as a condition for spatial restructuring.

284 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1993