Capital Rules: The Construction of Global Finance

by Rawi Abdelal

Book Overview

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The rise of global financial markets in the last decades of the twentieth century was premised on one fundamental idea: that capital ought to flow across country borders with minimal restriction and regulation. Freedom for capital movements became the new orthodoxy.

In an intellectual, legal, and political history of financial globalization, Rawi...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674034554
• ISBN13: 9780674034556
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"