The politics of international debt have received increasing attention in recent years. However, discussion of the politics of money has focused on Latin American and 'third' world countries. So far there has been little treatment of the politics of scarce money and of money as a political category in relation to 'advanced' countries. The central theme of the book is the limitations and constraints on state action which arise from the relation between the (nation) state and the global flow of money.
Michel Aglietta ha demostrado claramente en términos estructurales los poderes violentos y dictatoriales de los regímenes monetarios. Ver su La violence de la monnaie (París: PUF, 1982). Ver también sus ensayos en Werner Bonefeld y John Holloway, eds., Global Capital, National State, and the Politics of Money (London: Macmillan, 1995).