Finance has long been an integral part of the capitalist economy, yet since the 1970s the realm of finance has burgeoned, reaching well beyond its traditional funding roles. Finance now reaches into all aspects of economic life from the everyday activity of the individual, to the behaviour of corporations and the decisions made for society as a whole. The power and fragility of the financial sector are seen by the simple fact that when things go wrong, it can bring down banks, c...
Cuprins
1. Introduction
2. The terrain of financialization
3. Financialization, neoliberalism and globalization
4. The characteristics of (variegated) financialization in th...
Despre autor
Malcolm Sawyer is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Leeds. He was founding Editor of the International Review of Applied Economics and he is the auth...