Review essay explores risk, solutions, and politics in financial and economic geography literature, indicating normative implications.
This review essay of Andy Pike’s “Financialization and Local Statecraft” reflects on three key thematics in the text: risk, solutions, and politics. I then identify three areas in which the political and geographical stakes of Pike’s work engage with contemporary literature and normative concerns in financial and economic geography.
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