The authors consider different forms of financial capital and discuss their functioning by using simple models. They then develop a formal framework that helps to understand the dramatic expansion of financial wealth (both money and financial capital) and its increasingly unequal distribution.
表中的内容
1 Introduction 9
1.1 Markets, money, financial capital 9
1.2 Notations for models 11
2 Beginning with banks 15
2.1 Two money circuits 15
2.2 Banks’ deposit money 18
2.3 Usages of reserves 28
2.4 Zero-sum games and debts 32
3 Bonds 39
3.1 Some data 39
3.2 Orientation to returns 40
3.3 Government bond spreads 46
3.4 Financing of government debt 49
3.5 Appendix: Modern Money Theory 59
4 Tradable shares 63
4.1 Some data 63
4.2 Speculative pricing 65
4.3 Dividends 71
4.4 Real and virtual gains 76
5 Investment funds 83
5.1 Some data 83
5.2 Speculation with fund shares 85
5.3 Exchange-traded funds . 89
6 Derivatives 95
6.1 Forwards and futures 95
6.2 Options 101
6.3 Credit default swaps 108
7 Financialization 115
7.1 Expansion of financial wealth 115
7.2 Inequality of financial wealth 139
References 150
Index 154
关于作者
Prof. Dr. Andreas Behr lehrt Statistik an der Universität Duisburg-Essen.
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