Group of Seven : : Finance Ministries, Central Banks and Global Financial Governance / / Andrew Baker.

• Superior document: Routledge/Warwick studies in globalisation
• VerfasserIn: Baker, Andrew,
• Place / Publishing House: London : : Taylor & Francis,, 2006.
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge/Warwick studies in globalisation.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 295 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: Includes index.

We are now in the era of the G8, although the G7 still exists as a grouping for Finance Ministers. Why do G7 finance ministries and central banks co-operate? What are the implications of this co-operation for US power and the abilities of the other six states to exercise leadership? What role do the...

Table of Contents

• Introduction : The Group of Seven and global financial governance
• The evolution of the Group of Seven and the re-emergence of global finance : the historical context
• Situating the Group of Seven in a context of decentralized financial globalization : a four-dimensional framework
• The Group of Seven and the politics of financial ideas : the durability of the economic consensus of the 1990s
• The Group of Seven as a multi-spatial transgovernmental actor in world politics : four-dimensional diplomacy in practice
• The Group of Seven and macroeconomic governance : discourse, declaratory policy and market supremacy
• The Group of Seven and the global financial architecture : the institutional and ideational foundations of market supremacy
• Conclusions : Global financial governance and the Group of Seven as a senior transgovernmental coalition.