Acknowledgements -- Controlling, creating and cashing-in on risk: the essence of international financial markets -- Spatial versus functional mobility of capital: a framework for analysis -- The intellectual conditions for recent increases in capital mobility -- The historical conditions for recent increases in capital mobility -- Capital mobility, exchange rate instability and contagious credit crunches: the causes and spread of the Asian financial crisis -- Currency market transactions and the desire for progressive regulation: capital mobility and Tobin tax avoidance -- Stock price psychosis and the pathology of a corporate meltdown: the collapse of Enron -- Capital mobility in an age of shareholder value: the battle for control of the London Stock Exchange -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.