Global Finance in the New Century

SASHA C. BREGER PhD Candidate, Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver, USADICK BRYAN Associate Professor, University of Sydney, AustraliaNICK COATES Senior Adjunct Researcher UWS and Senior Policy Officer Financial Services, School of Economics and Finance (UWS), University of Western Sydney and Australian Consumers' Association, AustraliaMARY CONDON Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, CanadaGÉRARD DUMÉNIL Research Director, Universite de Paris X-Nanterre, France MARIEKE DE GOEDE Lecturer in Political History and International Relations, University of Amsterdam, The NetherlandsJULIE FROUD Reader in Accounting, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UKKIRYL HAIDUK PhD Candidate, International Relations and European Studies, Central European University, HungaryMARTIJN KONINGS York University, CanadaADAM LEAVER Lecturer in Business Analysis, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UKDOMINIQUE LÉVY CEPREMAP-ENS, Paris, FranceDONALD MACKENZIE Professor of Sociology, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Edinburgh, UKRICHARD MURPHY Director, Tax Research, LLP, UKJOHN NUGÉE Director, State Street Global Advisors Ltd., UKRONEN PALAN Professor of International Relations and Politics, International Relations Department, University of Sussex, UKAVINASH PERSAUD Chairman, Intelligence Capital Limited, UKMICHAEL RAFFERTY Senior Lecturer, Graduate School ofBusiness, University of Wollongong, AustraliaOR RAVIV PhD Candidate, University of Sussex, UKKAREL WILLIAMS Director of ESRC CRESC, Manchester Business School and Centre for Research in Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC), University of Manchester, UKWEI ZHANG PhD Student, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK

• Global Finance in the New Century: Deregulation and Beyond; L.Assassi, A.Nesvetailova & D.Wigan PART 1 Globalization, Efficient Markets and Arbitrage; D.Mackenzie Financial Derivatives: Bubble or Anchor?; D.Bryan & M.Rafferty Offshore Financial Centres, Hot Money and Hedge Funds: A Network Analysis of International Capital Flows; N.Coates & M.Rafferty Who Derivatives Markets Serve? Rhetoric Vs Reality; S.C.Breger PART 2 The Quiet Panic about Financial Illiteracy; J.Froud, A.Leaver, K.Williams & W.Zhang The Feminization of Pensions? Gender, Political Economy and Defined Contribution Pensions; M.Condon The Alchemy of Banks: The Consumer Credit Industry after Deregulation Central Europe in the EU Embrace; O.Raviv Finance and Management in the Dynamics of Social Change: Contrasting Two Trajectories: United States and France; G.Duménil & D.Lévy PART 3 Monetarism in the US: The Development of New Forms of Federal Reserve Control over Banks and Financial Markets; M.Konings The Political Economy of Post-Soviet Offshorisation; K.Haiduk Tax, Subsidies and Profit: Business and the Modern State; R.Palan & R.Murphy Financial Regulation and the War on Terror; M.de Goede Redesigning Financial Regulation; J.Nugee & A.Persaud Bibliography