Introduction * 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 The 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 Introduction * 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 The 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.