Finance and Economy
Finance and Economy
Overview
Research in this theme explores the uneven geographies of finance, how it is organized, institutionalised and governed as well as how it creates, assembles and distributes assets, liabilities and risk. Using a range of conceptual, theoretical and methodological approaches, work in this area examines the growing and uneven power of finance and its constitutive significance for the geographies of economic, social, political and cultural life.
- Geographies of debt and precarity
- Uneven geographies of financialisation
- Financialising the state
- Funding and financing of urban and regional development
- Evolution and change in financial systems, structures and institutions
- Global production networks and foreign direct investment
- Alternative financial institutions, sources and forms of value
Finance and Economy
Emeritus Professor Mike Coombes
Senior Research Investigator
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 0102
Professor Stuart Dawley
Chair in Economic Geography
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 7735
Dr Kean Fan Lim
Senior Lecturer in Economic Geography
Email: keanfan.lim@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: 0191 208 8037
Professor Danny MacKinnon
Professor of Regional Development and Governance; Director of CURDS
Email: danny.mackinnon@ncl.ac.uk
Professor Andy Pike
Sir Henry Daysh Chair of Reg Dev Studies
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 8011
Professor Jane Pollard
Professor of Economic Geography
Email: jane.pollard@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 7732