Global Finance in the New Century

SASHA C. BREGER PhD Candidate, Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver, USA DICK BRYAN Associate Professor, University of Sydney, Australia NICK 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, Australia MARY CONDON Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada GRARD DUMNIL Research Director, Universite de Paris X-Nanterre, France MARIEKE DE GOEDE Lecturer in Political History and International Relations, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands JULIE FROUD Reader in Accounting, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK KIRYL HAIDUK PhD Candidate, International Relations and European Studies, Central European University, Hungary MARTIJN KONINGS York University, Canada ADAM LEAVER Lecturer in Business Analysis, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK DOMINIQUE LVY CEPREMAP-ENS, Paris, France DONALD MACKENZIE Professor of Sociology, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Edinburgh, UK RICHARD MURPHY Director, Tax Research, LLP, UK JOHN NUGE Director, State Street Global Advisors Ltd., UK RONEN PALAN Professor of International Relations and Politics, International Relations Department, University of Sussex, UK AVINASH PERSAUD Chairman, Intelligence Capital Limited, UK MICHAEL RAFFERTY Senior Lecturer, Graduate School ofBusiness, University of Wollongong, Australia OR RAVIV PhD Candidate, University of Sussex, UK KAREL WILLIAMS Director of ESRC CRESC, Manchester Business School and Centre for Research in Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC), University of Manchester, UK WEI 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.Dumnil & D.Lvy 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