Managing financial risks : from global to local / edited by Gordon L. Clark, Adam D. Dixon, and Ashby H.B. Monk.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The changing political geography of financial crisis management / Louis W. Pauly -- Financial governance in the neo-liberal era / Gary Dymski -- Risk management and institutional investors / Gordon L. Clark -- The practicalities of being inaccurate : steps toward the social geography of financial risk management / Yuval Millo and Donald MacKenzie -- Learning to cope with uncertainty : on the spatial distributions of financial innovation and its fallout / Ewald Engelen -- The role of proximity in secondary equity markets / Dariusz Wójcik -- Infrastructure investment and the management of risk / Phillip O'Neill -- Balancing risk and return in urban investing / Lisa A. Hagerman and Tessa Hebb -- Managing financial risks in urban environments / Samuel Randalls -- Managing financial risks : the strange case of housing / Susan J. Smith -- Gender, risk, and occupational pensions / Kendra Strauss -- Consumer credit, self-discipline, and risk management / Paul Langley.