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Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society Advance Access originally published online on June 15, 2009
Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 2009 2(2):143-148; doi:10.1093/cjres/rsp019
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Cambridge Political Economy Society. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Spatial circuits of global finance

Harry Garretsena, Michael Kitsonb and Ron Martinc

a Department of International Economics and Business, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen, PO Box 800, 9700 AV, Groningen, The Netherlands, j.h.garretsen@rug.nl
b Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1AG, UK, m.kitson@jbs.cam.ac.uk
c Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Downing Place, Cambridge CB2 3EN, UK, rlm1@cam.ac.uk

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   Money and space
 
Traditionally, the geography of money has been a topic of only marginal or peripheral interest to economists. To be sure, economists have long studied banking, the operation of national financial and monetary systems, international capital movements and the like; but in typical economics fashion, the spatial frames and contexts within which banking, financial systems and capital markets operate have not of themselves been of interest and have typically been considered as exogenous and pre-given. Even geographers tended largely to ignore the spatialities of finance. Admittedly, in the 1970s and 1980s, there were some studies of regional banking structures, urban mortgage markets, regional credit availability and regional interest rate differentials; but the studies that appeared hardly added up to a substantial or . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   The Geographies of finance
 

   Geography and the global financial crisis
 

   Conclusions
 

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