Money and Finance After the Crisis: Critical Thinking for Uncertain Times

Money and Finance After the Crisis provides a critical multi–disciplinary and multi–scalar perspective on the post–crisis world of finance in all its complexity, dynamism and unpredictability. The contributions illuminate the diversity of ways in which money and finance continue to shape global political economy and society.

Written in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis of 2007–2009, the chapters highlight the significance of thinking about money and finance geographically by following the trail of the crisis and its aftermath through distinctive and interlinked spaces, ranging across the global financial centres of New York and London, the surplus–generating economies of Asia and the Middle East, and the ordinary households whose labours underlie the investments, debts, and speculations of society s collective and individual fortunes.

From the realms of orthodox finance capital to biodiversity conservation, the chapters explore proliferating forms and spaces of financial power and a broad range of contemporary social formations, including the complex ways in which modern debt–driven financial markets shape and are shaped by, for example, the "War on Terror", neoliberalizing China, and racialized inequality in post–Apartheid South Africa. Collectively, the contributions show there is neither a universal experience of the post–crisis world, nor a singular correct analysis.

Brett Christophers is Professor of Geography at Uppsala University. His work focuses on the geographical political economy of capitalism in the Global North. He is the author of Positioning the Missionary (1998), Envisioning Media Power (2009), Banking Across Boundaries (Wiley Blackwell, 2013), and The Great Leveler (2016).

Andrew Leyshon is Professor of Economic Geography at the University of Nottingham. His research focuses on money and finance, the musical economy, and the emergence of diverse economies. His publications include Money/Space (1997), The Place of Music (1998), Alternative Economic Spaces (2003), Geographies of the New Economy (2007), The Sage Handbook of Economic Geography (2011), and Reformatted (2014).

Geoff Mann is Professor of Geography and Director of the Centre for Global Political Economy at Simon Fraser University. His work centres on the political economy of liberal capitalism, and the politics of climate change. He is the author of  Our Daily Bread (2007), and  Disassembly Required (2013).