Legal geographies of finance: Editors' Introduction

摘要

If the global financial industry has escaped unchastened from the 2008 collapse and its aftermath, its deep entanglement with the neoliberal state is clearly part of the explanation. Crisis-era scholarship has tackled the state-finance nexus with renewed vigor and creativity (e.g., Krippner, 2011), building on previous demonstrations that states have driven and been enlisted in financialization for decades (e.g., Arrighi, 2010 [1994]; Gowan, 1999; Helleiner, 1994). However, scholars have only begun to take on the full institutional complexity of governance today, and how it is being reshaped around finance in many distinctive ways. This theme issue argues that more thoroughly engaging law and the legal is particularly crucial to developing a precise, politically powerful understanding of the state and its role in producing financial geographies.