Structure and Agency in International Capital Mobility

TIMOTHY J.SINCLAIR is Lecturer in International Political Economy at the University of Warwick and External Associate at the Centre for International and Security Studies, York University, Toronto. His publications include (with Robert W. Cox) Approaches to World Order, (with Martin Hewson) Approaches to Global Governance Theory, and he has contributed journal articles to Environment and Planning and Review of International Political Economy. - - KENNETH P. THOMAS is Associate Professor of Political Science, and Fellow in the Centre for International Studies at the University of Missouri, St Louis. He is the author of Capital Beyond Border: States and Firms in the Automobile Industry, 1960-1994 and co-editor (with Neil Harrison and Mary Ann Tetreault) of Racing to Regionalize: Democracy, Capitalism and Regional Political Economy, and Competing for Capital: European and North American Responses.

• List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors List of Abbreviations Structure and Agency in International Capital Mobility: An Introduction; K.P.Thomas and T.J.Sinclair PART I: INTERNATIONAL CAPITAL MOBILITY AND CONVERGENCE Financial Deregulation and the Origins of EMU; The French Policy Reversal of 1983; D.M.Andrews Does Capital Mobility Cause Regulatory Convergence? Illustrations from Japan; J.Holt-Dwyer Structural Indeterminancy and Sectoral Interests in European Monetary Integration; K.R.McNamara PART II: DEVELOPING THE SCHOLARLY AGENDA Bonded Polity: The Distributional Consequences of Relying More Heavily on Bond-Financed Social Policies; J.W.Moses International Capital Mobility: An Endogenous Approach; T.J.Sinclair Expanding the Debate on Capital Mobility; K.P.Thomas PART III: RESPONSES TO INTERNATIONAL CAPITAL MOBILITY Reconciling Practice and Structure: US Regulation of Transfer Pricing by Transnational Firms; M.C.Webb Negotiating the Structure of Capital Mobility; T.Porter Financial Globalization and Social Response? A Polanyian View: E.Helleiner References Index