Mareike Beck is an Assistant Professor in International Political Economy at the University of Warwick. Her research focuses on the global and everyday politics of finance, including transformations of global banking, real estate, and asset-based inequalities.
'A fantastic achievement. Mareike Beck establishes herself as a central voice in the debate about changing European banking practices in response to the liability management funding techniques favoured by American banks since the 1960s. This is a carefully crafted book awash with subtle insights and crammed full of rich empirical detail. It significantly rewrites the received history of how German banks reconstituted themselves in a desperate attempt to avoid being left behind.' Matthew Watson, University of Warwick 'Mareike beck overturns the conventional wisdom about European and specifically German finance, showing that German banks internationalized well before the nominal end of the Bretton Woods System, and that the cozy hausbank story in much of comparative political economy is overstated.' Herman Mark Schwartz, University of Virginia