This paper employs a multidisciplinary social sciences approach to analyse the political power of contemporary economic … them, directly or indirectly, into power or influence. This paper makes use of the classical concepts of structural and … instrumental power to explain the sources of their influence in democratic decision-making processes. I claim that a powerful and …

, which we explain in terms of arbitrage power, exploit the difference between exchanges in an imaginary ‘smooth’ market of …, regulations, and taxations. Arbitrage power exploits differences between the location of market exchange and the location of the …