Sarah Bracking is SARCHi Chair in Applied Poverty Reduction Assessment at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and Professor of International Development at the University of Manchester, UK.

'Once again Sarah Bracking has delivered a stunning tour de force that ranges from the grand South African infrastructure projects to the milliseconds of computerised trade deals in Chicago. Empirically rich, theoretically sophisticated, challenging, provocative and disturbing, this book will help you to see finance, and especially development finance, in a completely new light.’ — Professor Dan Brockington, Director, The Sheffield Institute for Development Studies, UK

• Table of contentsChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: The increasing financialisation of everything? Chapter 3: Financialisation: how and why is it happening?Chapter 4: The relationship between the virtual and the materialChapter 5: Frontiers of accumulation and ecologyChapter 6: Illicit financial flows and exemptions from sovereignty Chapter 7: The financialisation of power and political corruptionChapter 8: Financialised assistance, democracy and the anti-political future

Sarah Bracking is SARCHi Chair in Applied Poverty Reduction Assessment at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and Professor of International Development at the University of Manchester, UK.

'Once again Sarah Bracking has delivered a stunning tour de force that ranges from the grand South African infrastructure projects to the milliseconds of computerised trade deals in Chicago. Empirically rich, theoretically sophisticated, challenging, provocative and disturbing, this book will help you to see finance, and especially development finance, in a completely new light.’ — Professor Dan Brockington, Director, The Sheffield Institute for Development Studies, UK

• Table of contentsChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: The increasing financialisation of everything? Chapter 3: Financialisation: how and why is it happening?Chapter 4: The relationship between the virtual and the materialChapter 5: Frontiers of accumulation and ecologyChapter 6: Illicit financial flows and exemptions from sovereignty Chapter 7: The financialisation of power and political corruptionChapter 8: Financialised assistance, democracy and the anti-political future

Sarah Bracking is SARCHi Chair in Applied Poverty Reduction Assessment at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and Professor of International Development at the University of Manchester, UK.

'Once again Sarah Bracking has delivered a stunning tour de force that ranges from the grand South African infrastructure projects to the milliseconds of computerised trade deals in Chicago. Empirically rich, theoretically sophisticated, challenging, provocative and disturbing, this book will help you to see finance, and especially development finance, in a completely new light.’ — Professor Dan Brockington, Director, The Sheffield Institute for Development Studies, UK

• Table of contentsChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: The increasing financialisation of everything? Chapter 3: Financialisation: how and why is it happening?Chapter 4: The relationship between the virtual and the materialChapter 5: Frontiers of accumulation and ecologyChapter 6: Illicit financial flows and exemptions from sovereignty Chapter 7: The financialisation of power and political corruptionChapter 8: Financialised assistance, democracy and the anti-political future