Capital Rules: The Construction of Global Finance

By Rawi Abdelal

Book Overview

The rise of global financial markets in the last decades of the 20th century was premised on one fundamental idea: that capital ought to flow across country borders with minimal restriction and regulation. This intellectual, legal and political history of financial globalization shows that this was not always the case.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674023692
• ISBN13: 9780674023697
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.5" x 6.8"