The Financialisation of Power : How financiers rule Africa
- Submitting institution
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King's College London
- Unit of assessment
- 14 - Geography and Environmental Studies
- Output identifier
- 103667524
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Routledge Taylor and Francis Group
- ISBN
- 9780415538510
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- The book explores how financialization processes within the global political economy specifically relate to African economic development, politics, and governance. The book includes both seminal insights on the rentierism of financialization globally, and on how organisational, technical and market developments in capitalism condition and interrelate with structures of power and political economy nationally and locally within Africa. In particular it argues that technological developments, such as high-frequency trading, the dark pool economy, secrecy jurisdictions, illicit financial flows and tranched investment structures contribute to opaque marketisation which can encourage African political elites to collude in rentierism instead of inclusive economic development.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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