Scholars and critics often lament that corporations rule the world, but predominant accounts
of global governance imply almost the opposite: With theories populated by national …

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent
chapters of this book. The book highlights the macro-economic and-political drivers; they …

This paper contributes to understandings of the production of normativity, ie the ways in
which actors come to see rules as binding, in the context of corporate reporting regimes …

'How and why do transnational regulatory bodies emerge? How do they acquire the
authority and confidence to be actors in their own right? These questions preoccupy …

It is increasingly accepted that'institutions matter'for economic organization and outcomes.
The last decade has seen significant expansion in research examining how institutional …

This paper presents a contribution to the debates surrounding the culpability of accounting
in the recent financial crisis. It adopts a Marxist theoretical perspective concentrating mainly …

The power of financial industry groups is a subject of widespread academic and public
debate. Existing international political economy (IPE) research has highlighted how different …

This is a book about how 21st-century capitalism really works. Modern economics strips
away social, historical, and political context from analysis of'the economic', but the economy …

Since the global financial crisis, there is a massive shift of assets towards index funds.
Rather than picking stocks, index funds replicate stock indices such as the S&P 500. But …

If the European Union (EU) has been an effective bulwark against ad hoc globalization in
any economic domain, we may well find evidence from finance, the engine of cross-border …