The New Masters of Capital: American Bond Rating Agencies and the Politics of Creditworthiness
ISBN: 9780801471780
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Rating agencies (Finance) -- United States; Bonds -- Ratings -- United States; Credit ratings -- United States;

Sinclair offers a highly accessible account of bond rating agencies: their origins and the rating processes they use to judge creditworthiness. Illustrated with a wide range of cases, this book offers a fresh assessment of the role of an often-overlooked institution in the dynamics of modern global capitalism.


Timothy J. Sinclair teaches international political economy at the University of Warwick. He is the coauthor of Approaches to World Order and the editor of Global Governance: Critical Concepts in Political Science, Structure and Agency in International Capital Mobility, and Approaches to Global Governance Theory.

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