The New Geography of Capitalism

Adam D. Dixon is a senior lecturer in economic geography at the University of Bristol. His research focuses on comparative economic geography, the geography of finance, and the political economy of institutional investors. He is co-author with Gordon L. Clark and Ashby H.B. Monk of Sovereign Wealth Funds: Legitimacy, Governance and Global Power (2013, PUP) and co-editor with the same of Managing Financial Risks: From Global to Local (2009, OUP). He is a visiting scholar at Stanford University's Global Projects Center and has held visiting positions at Heidelberg University in Germany and Maastricht University in the Netherlands. He has a D.Phil from the University of Oxford, and master's and bachelor's degrees, respectively, from L'Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) and The George Washington University in Washington, DC.

• 1. The Geography of Finance ; 2. One World of Production? ; 3. Variegated Capitalism and the Firm ; 4. Comparing Financial Systems in a Global Economy ; 5. Financialization and the Welfare State ; 6. Corporate Transformation and Employee Pensions ; 7. The Global Financial Crisis and Beyond

Capitalism isnt what it used to be. And Adam Dixons New Geography of Capitalism makes a bold case for thinking about capitalism in new ways too. Thinking about capitalism as a variegated system, but as a system nonetheless, allows Dixon to avoid the pitfalls of both flat-earth convergence theory and those of institutionalist accounts of national variety. His promising alternative takes the problematic of integration seriously, not least as an engine of new geographies.