< Back to previous page

Publication

World cities under conditions of financialized globalization: Towards an augmented world city hypothesis

Journal Contribution - Journal Article

This paper interrogates the enduring yet changing role of world cities as centers of capitalist ‘command and control’ amidst deepening uneven development. By incorporating financialization processes in Friedmann’s (1986) world city hypothesis, we hypothesize that the world city archipelago remains an obligatory passage point for the relatively assured realization of capital. The advanced producer services complex appropriates superprofits as producers of co-constitutive knowledge on operational and financial firm restructuring, the creation of new circuits of value, and capital switching. Geographically, beyond the international financial center shortlist, the wider world city archipelago inserts finance capital (logics) in contemporary economies and societies.
Journal: Progress in Human Geography
ISSN: 0309-1325
Issue: 6
Volume: 39
Pages: 752-775
Publication year:2015
  • VABB Id: c:vabb:400050
  • Scopus Id: 84946406490
  • WoS Id: 000364737600004
  • ORCID: /0000-0002-5368-7884/work/71139651
CSS-citation score:3