TY - BOOK AU - Villegas, Edberto M. TI - Global finance capital and the Philippine financial system SN - 9718707565 AV - F HJ 1385 .V714 2000 PY - 2000/// CY - Manila PB - Institute of Political Economy KW - Finance, Public KW - Philippines KW - sears KW - Financial institutions, International N2 - This book presents the history and structure of the Philippine financial system and the nature of US monopoly capitalism which has engendered it. The three phases of the development of the Philippine financial system from its colonial nurturing by US Capitalism, through the rise of the Comprador bourgeoisie in the 1960's and the greater integration of the system within global capital 1990's are traced and evaluated in the book. The last two chapters examine closely the dynamics of speculative capital and its growing dominance in international finance ER -