Amid escalating claims about the promises and perils of emergent financial technologies
(fintech), critical investigation of the extent to which specific technological changes in global …

According to the author, rather than alleviating poverty, microfinance financialises poverty.
By indebting poor people in the Global South, it drives financial expansion and opens new …

The global financial crisis has brought discussion of financialization to the fore. Yet, what is
notable is the extent to which the dysfunctional micro-economic consequences of …

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent
chapters of this book. The book highlights the macro-economic and-political drivers; they …

The financialization literature tries to make sense of how the world has been changing and
continues to do so. There is real potential for financialization to conjoin real-world processes …

Despite expanding literatures on financialization, scholarship exploring its relationship to
labour and the labour process remains under-developed. A further obstacle has arisen from …

Nous nous concentrerons ici sur des économies caractérisées par des niveaux de
développement relativement élevés, parce que ce sont elles que nous connaissons le …

This is a book about how 21st-century capitalism really works. Modern economics strips
away social, historical, and political context from analysis of'the economic', but the economy …

This chapter argues for a reconceptualization of financial innovation which, as culprit and
victim of the current crisis, is now damned by those who once praised it. But what is financial …

If any organization ought to be immune to the forces of financialization, it is a publicly funded
university in corporatist Europe. Shielded from the intrusion by financial metrics, values and …