'There is no doubt that The International Organization of Credit merits close attention. Anyone interested in the restructuring of relationships within the world economy, and particularly the power of finance, will find this a wide-ranging, innovative and thought-provoking contribution to, and construction of, both IPE as a discipline and the international political economy as everyday practice.' Adam David Morton, International Affairs

• List of figures and tables; Preface; Note on figures and tables; Glossary; 1. Routes to international political economy: accounting for international monetary order; Part I. The International Organization of Credit in Historical Perspective: 2. The power of cities and their limits: principal financial centres and international monetary order; 3. Between change and continuity: reconstructing 'Bretton Woods'; Part II. The Contemporary International Organization of Credit: 4. The era of decentralized globalization; 5. Decentralized globalization and the exercise of public authority; 6. Finance, power and the world-economy approach: towards an historical-institutional international political economy; Appendix: top merchant/investment banks, by city and era; References; Index.

'There is no doubt that The International Organization of Credit merits close attention. Anyone interested in the restructuring of relationships within the world economy, and particularly the power of finance, will find this a wide-ranging, innovative and thought-provoking contribution to, and construction of, both IPE as a discipline and the international political economy as everyday practice.' Adam David Morton, International Affairs

• List of figures and tables; Preface; Note on figures and tables; Glossary; 1. Routes to international political economy: accounting for international monetary order; Part I. The International Organization of Credit in Historical Perspective: 2. The power of cities and their limits: principal financial centres and international monetary order; 3. Between change and continuity: reconstructing 'Bretton Woods'; Part II. The Contemporary International Organization of Credit: 4. The era of decentralized globalization; 5. Decentralized globalization and the exercise of public authority; 6. Finance, power and the world-economy approach: towards an historical-institutional international political economy; Appendix: top merchant/investment banks, by city and era; References; Index.

'There is no doubt that The International Organization of Credit merits close attention. Anyone interested in the restructuring of relationships within the world economy, and particularly the power of finance, will find this a wide-ranging, innovative and thought-provoking contribution to, and construction of, both IPE as a discipline and the international political economy as everyday practice.' Adam David Morton, International Affairs

• List of figures and tables; Preface; Note on figures and tables; Glossary; 1. Routes to international political economy: accounting for international monetary order; Part I. The International Organization of Credit in Historical Perspective: 2. The power of cities and their limits: principal financial centres and international monetary order; 3. Between change and continuity: reconstructing 'Bretton Woods'; Part II. The Contemporary International Organization of Credit: 4. The era of decentralized globalization; 5. Decentralized globalization and the exercise of public authority; 6. Finance, power and the world-economy approach: towards an historical-institutional international political economy; Appendix: top merchant/investment banks, by city and era; References; Index.