Analyzes America's unique role in the making and managing of global finance, setting it in the context of the historical, social and institutional interface between politics and finance. This book covers key American and international institutions in global finance.

This book analyzes America's unique role in the making and managing of global finance, setting it in the context of the historical, social and institutional interface between politics and finance.It is highly topical amidst the challenges of crises in globalized financial markets. It provides a distinctive and original theoretical approach which enlightens new imperialism debates and the developments in international and political economy. It offers a wide-ranging coverage of the key American and international institutions in global finance.In a lively critique of how international and comparative political economies misjudge the relationship between global markets and states, this book demonstrates the central place of the American state in today's world of globalized finance. The contributors set aside traditional emphasis on military intervention, looking instead to economics.

Preface
Introduction
L.Panitch &
M.Konings
PART I: CONTOURS AND SOURCES OF IMPERIAL FINANCE
Finance and American Empire
L.Panitch &
S.Gindin
American Finance and Empire in Historical Perspective
M.Konings
PART II: CONSTRUCTING THE PILLARS OF IMPERIAL FINANCE
US Structural Power and the Internationalization of the US Treasury
D.Sarai
Neo-Liberalism and the Federal Reserve
E.Newstadt
US Power and the International Bond Market: Financial Flows and the Construction of Risk Value
S.Aquanno
Towards the Americanization of European Finance? The Case of Finance-Led Accumulation in Germany
T.Sablowski
Accounting for Financial Capital: American Hegemony and the Conflict over International Accounting Standards
T.Sablowski
From Bretton Woods to Neoliberal Reforms: The International Financial Institutions and American Power
R.Felder
The Role of Financial Discipline in Imperial Strategy
C.Rude
Conclusion
M.Konings &
L.Panitch.