The aim of this timely work, which appears in the wake of the worst global financial crisis since the late 1920s, is to bring together high quality research-based contributions from leading international scholars involved in constructing a geographical perspective on money. Topics covered include the crisis, the spatial circuits of finance, regulation, mainstream financial markets (banking, equity, etc), through to the various ‘alternative’ and ‘disruptive’ forms of money that have arisen in recent years. It will be of interest to geographers, political scientists, sociologists, economists, planners and all those interested in how money shapes and reshapes socio-economic space and conditions local and regional development. Contents: INTRODUCTION 1. The Geography of Money and Finance Ron Martin and Jane Pollard PART I THE CASE FOR A GEOGRAPHY OF MONEY 2. On the Geography of Bubbles and Financial Crises Gary A. Dymski and Mimoza Shabani 3. The Geographical Political Economy of Money and Finance after the Great Crisis: Beyond ‘Market Discipline’ Brett Christophers 4. The Territorial Governance of the Financial Industry Jose Corpataux, Olivier Crevoisier and Thierry Theurillat 5. The Map and the Territory: Exploring Capital’s New Financialised Spatialities Dick Bryan, Mike Rafferty and Duncan Wigan 6. ‘This Time it’s Different’… and Why it Matters: The Shifting Geographies of Money, Finance and Risks Michael Pryke PART II MONEY, THE SPATIAL ORGANIZATION OF FINANCIAL SYSTEMS AND UNEVEN GEOGRAPHICAL DEVELOPMENT 7. The Spatial Structure of the Financial System and the Funding of Regional Business: A Comparison of Britain and Germany Britta Klagge, Ron Martin and Peter Sunley 8. The Geographical Network of Bank Organizations: Issues and Evidence for Italy Luca Papi, Emma Sarno and Alberto Zazzaro 9. Innovation and Stock Markets: International Evidence on Manufacturing and Services Dariusz Wójcik 10. The Financialisation and Governance of Infrastructure Peter O’Brien and Andy Pike 11. The Geography of Local Public Finance Enid Slack 12. The State as Institutional Investor: Unpacking the Geographical Political Economy of Sovereign Wealth Funds Adam D. Dixon 13. Geographies of Mortgage Markets Manuel B. Aalbers 14. Geographies of Assets and Debt Beverley A. Searle and Stephan Köppe 15. The Financial Legacy of Pension Fund Capitalism Gordon L. Clark PART III SPACES OF FINANCIAL AND MONETARY REGULATION 16. Regulatory Space and the Flow of Funds across the Hierarchy of Money David S. Bieri 17. Regulatory Spaces in Global Finance Sabine Dörry 18. Emerging Onshore-Offshore Services: The Case of Asset-Backed Finance Markets in Europe Thomas Wainwright 19. Banking Reform in China: A Balancing Act between Financial Viability and Financial Security Godfrey Yeung 20. Credit Rating Agencies are Poorly Understood and the Rules Developed for Them Will Not Work Ginevra Marandola and Timothy J. Sinclair PART IV NEW AND EMERGING MONEY SPACES 21. Alternative Circuits of Capital: Parallel Economies of Environmental Finance Janelle Knox Hayes 22. Geographies of Alternative, Complimentary and Community Currencies Peter North 23. ‘Mainstreaming; the Alternative’; The Financialisation of Transnational Migrant Remittances Kavita Datta 24. The Imaginary Landscapes of Islamic Finance and the Global Financial Crisis Lena Rethel 25. Crowdfunding: Understanding Diversity Mia Gray and Bryan Zhang 26. Bitcoin through the Lens of Complexity Theory Marc Pilkington