It serves to remind us that, in trying to explain the globalization of economic activity, we are dealing with the workings of a dynamic capitalist ma… - Peter Dicken

It remains to be seen, for example whether China can continue to develop as a market economy while still retaining an authoritarian communist political system.

Without the parallel development of systems of monetary - and credit-based exchange there could have been no development of economies beyond the most primitive organizational forms and the most geographically restricted sales.

A striking feature of financial service activities during the past few decades is that the financial transactions essential to the operation of the 'real' economy has become increasingly dwarfed by speculative activity.