Financialization : economic and social impacts / Malcolm Sawyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sawyer, Malcolm C., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Financialization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Agenda Publishing, [2022]

Summary:

An unrivalled analysis of the pervasive forms that financialization has taken, its rise as a global phenomenon, its impact on economic growth, its transformative effect on businesses and the costs that we pay as consumers. Has finance become a burden to growth and what, if anything, can be done to tame and control its power.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of figures and tables

1 Introduction

The major themes

What is financialization?

Financialization, neoliberalism and globalization

The pursuit of shareholder value

A driver of inequality or enabler?

Financialization of everyday life

Has the financial sector become dysfunctional?

2 The terrain of financialization

Defining financialization

Regimes of accumulation and stages of capitalism

Pursuit of shareholder value

Financialization of the everyday

Periods of financialization

Conclusions

3 Financialization, neoliberalism and globalization

Globalization and financialization

Financialization and neoliberalism

Financialization and the state

4 The characteristics of (variegated) financialization in the present era

Scale and structure of the financial sector

Employment and output in the financial sector Generated by AI.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781788215312

1788215311

OCLC:

1341396807