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Money, Power and Space
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Economic Geography
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April 1, 1996
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Money, Power and Space. Edited by S. Corbridge, N. Thrift, and R. Martin. Oxford and Cambridge, Mass.: Basil Blackwell, 1994.
Summarizing such a wide-ranging and impressive book is an enormously tall order. Money, Power and Space comprises 17 major chapters exploring different aspects of the relationships among money, power, and space. The list of contributors, from a range of different countries, is most impressive, and leads the reader to be reassured about the authority of the wide-ranging claims being made. Chapters cover most of the main financial players in the world money markets. This is perhaps the first such text to appear which successfully integrates theoretical and substantive ...
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