Financial Elites and Transnational Business

Edited by Georgina Murray, Associate Professor, Griffith University, Australia and John Scott, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Plymouth University and Visiting Professor, University of Essex, University of Exeter, UK

’This volume brings together leading scholars from around the world and a cross-section of some of the most exciting and cutting edge of research on transnational capitalists. The varied contributions are timely. They provide great insight into the structures and processes behind today's international business and political headlines. It is a must read for scholars and students of the new global capitalism.’

• Contents:1. Capital Mobilization, Transnational Structures, and Capitalist ClassesJohn Scott2. The Financialization of Global Corporate OwnershipDavid Peetz and Georgina Murray3. Capital Relations and Directorate Interlocking: The Global Network in 2007William K. Carroll4. The Transnational Capitalist Class and Tax HavensAnthony van Fossen5. The Business Roundtable and the Transnational Capitalist ClassClifford L. Staples6. Transnational Business Networks in the Eurozone: A Focus on Four Major Stock Exchange IndicesFrançois-Xavier Dudouet, Eric Grémont and Antoine Vion7. The Transnational Class in Mexico: New and Old Mechanisms Structuring Corporate Networks (1981–2010)Alejandra Salas-Porras8. National and Transnational Structuring of the British Corporate EliteBruce Cronin9. Australia’s Ruling Class: A Local Elite, a Transnational Capitalist Class or Bits of Both?Georgina Murray10. Outward Bound: Transnational Capitalism in ChinaJerry Harris11. Corporate Futures and the Consequences from the Top End of Town Georgina MurrayIndex