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Taylor & Francis The Bank Merger Wave 1999 Edition by Gary Dymski
This far-reaching study shows that operating efficiencies are not what are driving today's unrelenting bank merger mania. It suggests that bank mergers and consolidation may have effects that are contrary to consumer and non-financial business interests, such as lower rates of interest, increasing fees, and tighter credit constraints. Dymski recommends several new policies to apply to the evaluation of prospective mergers. Table of contents :- Contents: Introduction: what is new about global inequalities? Part I Marx and Political-Economy Approaches: Class vs. other: coloniality as anomaly in Karl Marx; World-systems analysis and the feminist subsistence perspective; Orientalism vs. occidentalism: the decolonial perspective; The world-historical model: relational inequalities and global processes. Part II Weber and Historical-Comparative Models: The West vs. the rest: modernity as uniqueness in Max Weber; Citizenship as social closure: Weberian perspectives and beyond; After uniqueness: entangled modernities and multiple Europes; Conclusions: for a sociology of global inequalities beyond occidentalism. References; Index.