Function before form: macro-institutional comparison and the geography of finance
批评了经济地理学中流行的“资本主义多样性”框架，主张从金融和制度的功能出发进行分析，并通过比较德国与美国金融体系近二十年的变化来论证这一观点。
This article considers the treatment of institutions and institutional change in relation to finance and macro-institutional comparison in economic geography. Where recent contributions are sympathetic to the ‘Varieties of Capitalism’ framework, this article argues instead for an analytical approach that is attentive to the functions of finance and institutions. While the former contends that institutional function follows from form, the latter reevaluates this relationship. This article illustrates these arguments empirically through a qualitative comparison of the changing form and function of the German financial system and banking sector with that of the USA over the last two decades.