The Remit of Financial Geography-Before and after the Crisis

Posted: 31 Aug 2009

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Roger Lee

Queen Mary, University of London

Gordon L. Clark

Oxford University - Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment

Jane S. Pollard

Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies

Andrew Leyshon

University of Nottingham

Date Written: September 2009

Abstract

Who could have thought that banks would become nationalised, that state debts would reach historical levels, that bulge bracket investment banks would go bankrupt and that the masters of the universe would be so widely vilified? Each in their own way, the four reflections collected in this article address the new issues raised by the financial meltdown for the past and future of financial geography. They also reflect back on the issues raised in the introduction to the special issue and the way the papers making up the special issue provide ammunition for future research. The comments offer a remarkably coherent message that reflects that conveyed in the introduction about the potential, and especially the need to realise the potential, of financial geography at the current time.

Keywords: financial crisis, regulation, markets, risk pricing, financialisation, political economy

JEL Classification: G01, G10, G20, G28

Suggested Citation

Lee, Roger and Clark, Gordon L. and Pollard, Jane S. and Leyshon, Andrew, The Remit of Financial Geography-Before and after the Crisis (September 2009). Journal of Economic Geography, Vol. 9, Issue 5, pp. 723-747, 2009, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1463215 or http://dx.doi.org/lbp035

Roger Lee

Queen Mary, University of London ( email )

London, London
United Kingdom

Gordon L. Clark

Oxford University - Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment ( email )

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Oxford, OX1 3QY
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HOME PAGE: http://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/staff/glclark.html

Jane S. Pollard

Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies ( email )

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Devonshire Building
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, 2308 NE1 7RU
United Kingdom

HOME PAGE: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/gps/staff/profile/j.s.pollard

Andrew Leyshon

University of Nottingham ( email )

University Park
Nottingham, NG8 1BB
United Kingdom

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