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Global Finance and Capital Adequacy Regulation: Recreating Capitalist Social Relations

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The paper argues that capital adequacy regulation has served to recreate the neoliberal form of capitalist social relations. It identifies two dimensions to this process. First, the paper argues that capital adequacy regulation in historical perspective can be understood to have incentivized, facilitated, and legitimated the kind of arbitrage that allow it to proceed. Second, it argues revisions to capital adequacy requirements serve to discipline mutual and cooperative forms of finance. JEL Classification: G28, P13, P16

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  • Chris Rogers, 2018. "Global Finance and Capital Adequacy Regulation: Recreating Capitalist Social Relations," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 50(1), pages 66-81, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:reorpe:v:50:y:2018:i:1:p:66-81
    DOI: 10.1177/0486613416666510
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    Keywords

    Basel III; finance; Co-operative Bank; regulation; capital adequacy;
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    JEL classification:

    • G28 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Government Policy and Regulation
    • P13 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - Cooperative Enterprises
    • P16 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - Capitalist Institutions; Welfare State

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