This book analyses the growth of financial and producer services within British provincial centres from the mid-1970s. Financial and producer service employment growth is described in detail, and is attributed to the growth in local demand for these services within provincial centres and regions. The growth in local demand is a function both of the increasing vertical disintegration of production within the economy as a whole and of the growing market opportunities for financial and producer services within provincial centres. These market opportunities have increased during the 1980s as the City of London and many of the financial institutions based there have become increasingly integrated into the global financial system. Three important mechanisms of financial and producer service growth are identified; first, the growth of local, regionally-based firms; second, the office expansion of large London-based multilocational firms; and, third, office decentralisation from central London. Three major aspects of this growth are also identified.

The Rise of the British Provincial Financial Centre (Progress in Planning)

Business & Money

Leyshon, Andrew

Economics

Pergamon Pr

The impact of digital technology on the musical economy has been profound. From its production, reproduction, distribution, and consumption, the advent of MP3 and the use of the Internet as a medium of distribution has brought about a significant transformation in the way that music is made, how it is purchased and listened to, and, significantly, how the musical economy itself is able to reproduce itself. In the late 1990s the obscure practice of 'ripping' tracks from CDs through the use of compression programmes was transformed from the illegal hobby of a few thousand computer specialists to a practice available to millions of people worldwide through the development of peer-to-peer computer networks. This continues to have important implications for the viability of the musical economy. At the same time, the production of music has become more accessible and the role of key gatekeepers in the industry--such as record companies and recording studios-- has been undermined, whilst the increased accessibility of music at reduced cost via the Internet has revalorised live performance, and now generates revenues higher than recorded music. The early 21st century has provided an extraordinary case study of an industry in flux, and one that throws light on the relationship between culture and economy, between passion and calculation. This book provides a theoretically grounded account of the implications of digital technology on the musical economy, and develops the concept of the musical network to understand the transformation of this economy over space and through time.

Reformatted: Code, Networks, and the Transformation of the Music Industry

Oxford University Press

Money/Space: Geographies of Monetary Transformation (International Library of Sociology)

Bringing together in one volume the most important writings of Andrew Leyshon and Nigel Thrift on money and finance, including the unpublished classic "Sexy-Greedy" this collection examines the economic, social and cultural manifestations that go to make up the multiple vision of money. Money, it seems is the great God of our age. It is also an economy, a sociology, an anthropolgy and a geography. Linking money with the emergent patterns of global spatial order. Money/Space analyses the restructuring of financial markets in a range of spatial scales; global, national and local.

Money/Space (International Library of Sociology)

Routledge

Thrift, Nigel

Money/Space: Geographies of Monetary Transformation

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