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The Bank Culture Debate

Ethics, Values, and Financialization in Anglo-America

By: Huw Macartney

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The Bank Culture Debate

Ethics, Values, and Financialization in Anglo-America

By: Huw Macartney

The period since the global financial crisis has exposed some areas of serious illegal and immoral conduct within western banking systems. Drawing on interviews with more than 150 individuals working in financial services as well as regulators, politicians, and lawyers, this book explains what has and hasn't changed in bank culture.

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0198843763

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Variegated Neoliberalism

EU varieties of capitalism and International Political Economy

By: Huw Macartney

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Variegated Neoliberalism

EU varieties of capitalism and International Political Economy

By: Huw Macartney

We know from the cost of the 2007-09 crisis that transnational finance does not operate in a realm removed from our everyday lives. Variegated Neoliberalism explains why its inequalities persist and how they undermine more social-minded policies towards finance in the EU. The book suggests that large financial groups capitalize on broader changes in capitalism and emerging assumptions about what benefits society at large. Those pushing these political-economic projects present policy change to cope with financial globalization as a new common sense. Macartney's argument then contests these assumptions through an analysis of the spatial relations of transnational actors, and the political claims made within finance and research communities. Rather than relying on umbrella concepts like 'transnational capitalist class', Variegated Neoliberalism emphasises the national-domestic foundations for transnationalization and what we commonly understand as neoliberalism. The book provides comparative analyses of global and European banking communities, and economic research centres, in the UK, France, and Germany. It explains the constellations underpinning the current neoliberal order in global finance, and the realms of possibility for challenges to it.

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Routledge

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113686282X

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9781136862823

Critical International Political Economy

Dialogue, Debate and Dissensus

By: Stuart Shields,Ian Bruff,Huw Macartney

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Critical International Political Economy

Dialogue, Debate and Dissensus

By: Stuart Shields,Ian Bruff,Huw Macartney

Amidst the continued debate surrounding the foundations of IPE, coupled with recent methodological and theoretical divides this book argues that an attempt should be made to re-visit the notion of the 'critical'. The challenge posed by contributors to this volume is to assess the development of so-called critical IPE and interrogate whether the theoretical foundations it was built upon have reached their potential. The essays in this volume take up this challenge in a number of different ways but all share a common concern - to re-assess the purpose of critical approaches, reflect on why certain social theorists have been favoured as a point of departure, yet others have largely been ignored. In light of recent debates on the notion of a 'trans-Atlantic divide' within IPE the collection the contributors aim demonstrates how the distinction between the 'critical' and the 'orthodox' (or 'empirical') is only significant if the 'critical' is geared towards a larger, more substantial body of critical social enquiry and engages with what it means to conduct such enquiry.

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0230299407

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The Bank Culture Debate

Ethics, Values, and Financialization in Anglo-America

By: Huw Macartney

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Ethics, Values, and Financialization in Anglo-America

By: Huw Macartney

The period since the Global Financial Crisis and numerous scandals have exposed some areas of serious illegal and unethical conduct within western banking systems. Despite extensive reforms it is increasingly apparent however that there is a persistent problem with the 'culture' of banking in Anglo-America. US and UK state managers made substantial efforts to reform the culture of their banking sectors. However, this book argues that they focused on an extremely narrow definition of bank culture. They did so for two reasons: firstly, because the structural pressures of financialization - which are a far more important driver of the problematic features of bank culture in Anglo-America - are harder to remedy; but secondly, state managers also used their bank culture response to tackle a legitimacy crisis facing their institutions of government. In so doing they abdicated responsibility for the real problems - of inequality and instability - associated with their respective financial systems Drawing on interviews with more than 150 individuals working in financial services as well as regulators, politicians, and lawyers, The Bank Culture Debate explains the strategies employed by state managers before then examining what has and has not changed in the culture of banking in the US and UK.

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Oxford University Press

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0192581902

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The Fault Lines of Inequality

COVID 19 and the Politics of Financialization

By: Huw Macartney,Johnna Montgomerie,Daniela Tepe

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The Fault Lines of Inequality

COVID 19 and the Politics of Financialization

By: Huw Macartney,Johnna Montgomerie,Daniela Tepe

This book examines how decisions made by the Conservative government during the COVID19 pandemic have increased economic inequality in the UK. Decades of austerity, asset-based welfare and financialization had already exacerbated social divisions in the UK prior to the pandemic. The political blueprint behind these measures combined Privatized Keynesianism and the Asset Economy. To explain, economists have highlighted that inequality derives from the fact that income from wealth increases at a faster rate than income from wages. The ensuing political assumption is that – in the face of pressures on public finances – promoting asset ownership is the best alternative to government-funded welfare schemes. What this meant, as the pandemic unfolded, was that when tough decisions about resource allocation needed to be made, the UK Treasury and the Bank of England found almost unlimited funds to rescue and protect asset-holders and middle-income homeowners, whilst reverting to a narrative of “misfortune” for the asset-less poor. This book assesses the political decisions taken by UK policymakers during 2020-21 and their consequences. In doing so, it challenges policymakers and the informed public to re-consider the morality of inequality, and to make alternative decisions to promote a more ecologically sustainable, caring, equal and prosperous society.

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Springer Nature

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3030969142

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The Debt Crisis and European Democratic Legitimacy

By: H. Macartney

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The Debt Crisis and European Democratic Legitimacy

By: H. Macartney

Huw Macartney examines the conflicting movements gripping Europe. He explains why 'more Europe and less democracy' seems to be the order of the day. He argues that state managers responses reflect a long-term disquiet about the economic consequences of democracy. Through a critical engagement with ordo-liberal and neo-liberal intellectual traditions, Macartney explains why participation and consent have given way to coercion and depoliticisation. Financial speculation and growing social unrest have thus fuelled attempts to further mystify the political character of economic policymaking. This comes at precisely the time when the everyday life of European citizens is most affected by the decisions of political classes at the heart of Europe. There are strong reasons to believe though that the kind of violent outbreaks in Greece and elsewhere point to the limitations of this authoritarian, undemocratic governing strategy. The end-result could prove devastating for Europe.

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Palgrave Pivot

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1137298006

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Variegated Neoliberalism

EU Varieties of Capitalism and International Political Economy

By: Huw Macartney

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Variegated Neoliberalism

EU Varieties of Capitalism and International Political Economy

By: Huw Macartney

Variegated Neoliberalism provides comparative analyses of global and European banking communities, and economic research centres, in the UK, France, and Germany. It explains the current neoliberal order in global finance, and the realms of possibility for challenges to it.

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The Debt Crisis and European Democratic Legitimacy

The Debt Crisis and European Democratic Legitimacy

Variegated Neoliberalism

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