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The Secret City is a useful resource to teach the spaces and places that manifest the material power of finance. It offers an important historical element of understanding merchant finance as separate from nation-states, here the Corporation of the City of London is explored as private entity that exists outside and right at the heart of London – a leading global financial centre. Film is an important resource for teaching political economy because it makes visible the materiality of finance as money and power.
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