3-in-1: Governing a Global Financial Centre

3-in-1: Governing a Global Financial Centre provides a comprehensive understanding of Singapore's past development and future success as a global financial centre. It focuses on three transformational processes that have determined the city-state's financial sector development and governance — globalisation, financialisation, and centralisation — and their impacts across three areas: the economy, governance, and technology. More importantly, this book takes a multidimensional approach by considering the inter-related and interdependent nature of these three transformational processes. Just like the 3-in-1 coffee mix that is such an ubiquitous feature of everyday life in Singapore, the individual ingredients of Singapore's success as a global financial centre do not act alone, but as an integrated whole that manifests itself in one final product: the global financial centre.

Contents:

• Acknowledgements
• About the Book
• Preface
• The Political Economy of a Global Financial Centre
• Global Cities in a Global Economy
• The Prevalence of Finance
• Making Sure the Centre Holds
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• About the Author

Readership: University and graduate level students studying political economy, general public interested in studies of financial centres.
Key Features:

• This book provides a comprehensive understanding of Singapore's development as a financial centre, taking a political economy and process-driven approach
• This book aims to provide readers with an in-depth understanding of the various forces that drive financial sector development in Singapore, as well as the broad implications of these forces
• This book provides a dynamic and process-driven understanding of financial sector development in Singapore. This differs from the often historical and descriptive approaches taken by other books on the subject
• In contrast to the economic and historical approaches that most studies of Asian financial centres have tended to take, this book is multi-disciplinary in nature, addressing economic, socio-political and technological variables
• This book addresses the topic from both an empirical and theoretical perspective, drawing on the author's research in the area and cutting edge theoretical developments