Banking Across Boundaries: Placing Finance in Capitalism
本书分析了2007-2008年金融危机后，银行业与实体经济分离的历史根源，探讨了国家核算技术如何将银行业定位在经济中，适合对金融与资本主义关系感兴趣的学者。
Following the financial crisis of 2007–2008, the contribution of banking and financial services to the wider global economy has been keenly debated in public, political and academic circles. Much of this debate has hinged on a distinction between financial services on the one hand, and the ‘real’ economy on the other. In this respect, critics point to the self-serving interests of the financial services industry and argue that the ‘real’ economy needs to be privileged and financial services reconfigured in order to support activities such as manufacturing, in order to deliver economic growth. In Banking across Boundaries, Christophers provides a powerful and important analysis of the historical roots of this separation between banking and the rest of the economy. He does this by tracing the ways in which ‘economic productiveness’ became mobilized as an economic technology within national accounting statistics and the variable ways in which banking and financial services have been positioned in relation to this category over time and space. In so doing and by adopting a spatially sensitive and expansive historical approach, Banking across Boundaries is an impressive and ambitious account of the importance of national accounting technologies in the discursive and material positioning of banking within economies.