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- Title
Reimagining geographies of public finance.
- Authors
August, Martine; Cohen, Dan; Danyluk, Martin; Kass, Amanda; Ponder, CS; Rosenman, Emily
- Abstract
The study of public finance—the role of government in the economy—has faded in geography as attention to private finance has grown. Disrupting the tendency to fetishize private financial power, this article proposes an expanded conception of public finance that emphasizes its role in shaping geographies of inequality. We conceptualize the relationship between public and private finance as a dynamic interface characterized today by asymmetrical power relations, path-dependent policy solutions, the depoliticization of markets, and uneven distributional effects. A reimagined theory and praxis of public finance can contribute to building abolitionist futures, and geographers are well positioned to advance this project.
- Subjects
PUBLIC finance; GEOGRAPHY; POWER (Social sciences); GEOGRAPHERS; CENTRAL banking industry; DEPOLITICIZATION
- Publication
Progress in Human Geography, 2022, Vol 46, Issue 2, p527
- ISSN
0309-1325
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/03091325211054963