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Hidden Empire of Finance W. Henry Lambright An international team of scholarsHidden Empire of Finance follows the rise of new global cities, tracing their roots back to the 1970s global proliferation of neoliberalism and following their fate in the wake of the 2008 financial collapse. As India, China, and other nations sought to develop urban infrastructures that could compete with western hubs like New York, Paris, and London, large scale flows of capital intruded into national economies to speculate on the growing real