Capital Claims: Power and Global Finance

Benjamin Braun is a senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Germany. His research focuses on the political economy of financial and monetary systems.Kai Koddenbrock leads a research group on "Monetary and Economic Sovereignty in West Africa" at the "Africa Multiple" Cluster of Excellence at Bayreuth University, Germany. His research focuses on global hierarchies, financial dependencies, and questions of self-determination.

• 1. The Three Phases of Financial Power: Leverage, Infrastructure, and Enforcement Part I: Leverage Power 2. Leveraging Financial Claims: Transatlantic Bank Struggles and the Power of US Finance 3. Countering Financial Claims: On the Political Economy of Definancialisation 4. Relational Claims: Offshore Dollar and Sovereign Debt 5. Claims to Sovereignty: MMT as a Challenge to Money’s Technical Imaginary Part II: Infrastructural Power 6. The New Gatekeepers of Financial Claims: States, Passive Markets, and the Growing Power of Index Providers 7. The Benefits of Network Centrality: Central Counterparties, the Enforceability of Claims, and the Securing of Extra-Profits 8. Geoeconomic Infrastructures: Building Chinese-Russian Alternatives to SWIFT Part III: Enforcement Power 9. Night of the Living Debt: Non-performing Loans and the Politics of Making an Asset Class in Europe 10. The Financialization of Investor-State Dispute Settlement 11. Firm Claims: Reinterpreting the Global Race for Foreign Direct Investment 12. Claiming the Wealth of a Nation: Creditor-Enforced Privatizations in Greece Part IV: Conclusion 13. The Rise of Autonomous Financial Power

"Capital Claims: Power and Global Finance cuts through the flows of global finance, revealing how financial instruments operate through law, state power, and hierarchy. A return to the best kind of political economy."Amin Samman, Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy at City, University of London, UK"In this excellent collection, some of the sharpest minds in contemporary political economy help us understand the ways different modes of power saturate contemporary financial capitalism. The light they shine illuminates not just the rules and hierarchies that coordinate that power, but also the processes through which those who enjoy it make, and enforce, claims upon the world that reach far beyond the realm of ‘finance.’ In a moment in which private finance is hailed as the solution to everything from housing to climate change, this book does crucial work."Geoff Mann, Professor in the Department of Geography at Simon Fraser University, Canada"Finance capital claims a central role in our political economy. This book unpacks its power/s to do so, through an impressive collection of brilliant contributions."Daniela Gabor, Professor of Economics and Macro-Finance at the University of the West of England, UK