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Introduction: Neglecting, Rediscovering and Thinking Again about Power in Finance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2014

Michael Moran  and
Anthony Payne
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Abstract

The articles in this special issue survey comparatively the shape of power and finance. The introduction sketches the history of the study of the political role of financial markets and examines the reasons for the comparative neglect of the subject by the discipline of political science.

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Government and Opposition , Volume 49 , Issue 3: The Power of Finance: Before and After the Great Financial Crash , July 2014 , pp. 331 - 341
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Copyright © Government and Opposition Ltd 2014 

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Michael Moran is Emeritus Professor of Government at the University of Manchester Business School. Contact email: [email protected]. Anthony Payne is Co-director of the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI) at the University of Sheffield. Contact email: [email protected].

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