Uneven Zimbabwe
Subtitle: A Study of Finance, Development and Underdevelopment
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: January 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 515
ISBN-13: 9780865435384
Subjects: Development economics; Finance; Monetary economics; Zimbabwe; Financial Economics (General); Economic Development; Business & Economics; Politics / Current Events; Regional disparities; Business/Economics; History; Africa - General; International - Economics; Economic Conditions
Description: Uneven Zimbabwe examines the influence of domestic and international financial markets and financiers in uneven development in Zimbabwe, using - and contributing to - the tools of radical political economy. Theoretically, Bond begins with criticism of the classical Marxist concepts of "finance capital" for focusing on institutional characteristics and failing to grasp underlying dynamics.

Instead, as economic crisis tendencies emerge, the power of finance periodically intensifies, temporarily displacing crisis through time and space and across geographical scales. But the limits of the financial solution become evident when paper assets delink from the productive assets they are meant to represent, as well as in the role that finance plays in amplifying uneven development across different economic sectors, spaces and scales.