(Ebook) The Routledge Handbook of Financial Geography by Janelle Kallie Knox, Dariusz Wójcik (editors) ISBN 9781351119061, 9780815369738, 9781351119047, 9781351119054, 1351119060, 0815369735, 1351119044, 1351119052

(Ebook) The Routledge Handbook of Financial Geography by Janelle Kallie Knox, Dariusz Wójcik (editors) ISBN 9781351119061, 9780815369738, 9781351119047, 9781351119054, 1351119060, 0815369735, 1351119044, 1351119052

This handbook is a comprehensive and up-to-date reference work that offers a surveyof the state of financial geography. With Brexit, a global recession triggered by theCOVID-19 pandemic, and new financial technology threatening and promising torevolutionize finance, the map of the financial world is in a state of transformation,with major implications for development.With these developments in the background, this handbook builds on this unprec-edented momentum and responds to these epochal challenges, offering a comprehen-sive guide to financial geography. Financial geography is concerned with the studyof money and finance in space and time, and their impacts on economy, society, andnature. The book consists of 29 chapters organized in six sections: theoretical per-spectives in financial geography; financial assets and markets; investors; intermediation;regulation and governance; and finance, development, and the environment. Eachchapter provides a balanced overview of current knowledge, identifying issues anddiscussing relevant debates. Written from a wide range of disciplines in an analyticaland engaging style by authors based on six continents, the work also offers reflectionson the direction in which the research agenda is likely to advance in the future.The book’s key audience will primarily be students and researchers in geography,urban studies, global studies, and planning who are more or less familiar with financialgeography and who seek access to a state-of-the art survey of this area. It will also beuseful for students and researchers in other disciplines, such as finance and economics,history, sociology, anthropology, politics, business studies, environmental studies, andother social sciences, who seek convenient access to financial geography as a new andrelatively unfamiliar area. Finally, it will be a valuable resource for practitioners in thepublic and private sector, including business consultants and policy-makers, who lookfor alternative…