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How 19th century finance and housing associations shaped 20th century housing regimes in Germany and the United States
Why has Germany become a country of tenants with a housing policy directed at private and public rental construction? On the other hand, why has the United States turned into a homeownership country? In an interesting article, Sebastian Kohl (University … Continue reading
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Tagged comparative political economy, economic history, finance, Germany, housing, institutions, policy, United States, urban policy
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Financialization as a state project
Financialization is a key feature of neoliberalism. It refers to the capturing impact of financial markets, institutions, actors, instruments and logics on the real economy, labor, households and daily life. Essentially it has significant implications for the broader patterns and functioning of an … Continue reading
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Tagged finance, financialization, neoliberalism, policy, Political economy, state, United Kingdom
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Debt is a Product of Power Relations
Debt is a product of power relations which inherently exhibits capturing and dominating mechanisms of subordination, appropriation and exploitation in various societal, political and economic fields. Debt is degrading institutional tool which not merely controls and masters labor in advance, it also self- and socially … Continue reading
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Tagged accounting, credit, debt, Economic Sociology, finance, gender, neoliberalism, valuation
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What is financialization? Marxism, Post-Keynesianism and Economic Sociology’s complementary theorizing
The economic crisis erupted in 2007-2008, commonly known around the world as the Global Financial Crisis and in the US as the Great Recession, highlighted – for those who deliberately or unintentionally have in recent years overlooked – the ascendancy of finance, a … Continue reading
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Tagged banking system, capitalism, corporations, Economic Sociology, finance, financial crisis, financialization, households, Marxism, neoliberalism, Political economy, profit
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Financial economics, or “Would you please elaborate on ‘then something bad happened’?”
“Would you please elaborate on ‘then something bad happened’?”
Posted in Theory in Pictures
Tagged economics, finance, financial markets, social studies of finance, stock exchange
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Pope Francis against neoliberalism, finance capitalism, consumerism and inequality
In November 2013 Pope Francis issued his first Apostolic Exhortation translated into English as The Joy of the Gospel. Over 224 pages, in remarkably direct and plain, but plentiful, language, Pope Francis – the first Pope from the Global South – outlines his vision on … Continue reading
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Tagged capitalism, consumerism, Culture, economics, finance, inequality, neoliberalism, policy, religion, violence
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James Tobin on ‘paper economy’ and short-sighted speculation-generating financial instruments
Nobel laureate in Economic Sciences James Tobin at the conclusions in his (open access) “On the Efficiency of the Financial System” paper: “We are throwing more and more of our resources, including the cream of our youth, into financial activities remote … Continue reading
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Tagged finance, financial markets, financialization, neoliberalism, social studies of finance, technology
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“Debt: Ethics, the Environment and the Economy”: the concept of indebtedness in its various senses and perspectives
From personal finance and consumer spending to ballooning national expenditures on warfare and social welfare, debt is fundamental to the dynamics of global capitalism. This timely and broad volume, adited by Peter Y. Paik and Merry Wiesner-Hanks (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), … Continue reading
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Tagged capitalism, debt, Economic Sociology, environment, ethics, finance, money
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The history of money and its “devine” metamorphosis in the 20th century
Professor Jack Weatherford, a renowned cultural anthropologist: “In the 20th century, we saw money turn rapidly from paper into plastic and then into mere electronic blips generated in computers, transferred over telephone lines and through computer terminals, and without any corporal … Continue reading
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Tagged banking, credit, economic anthropology, economic history, finance, money, policy
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From Mark Twain’s observation on October stock market to Randy Martin’s on financialization of daily life
We are in mid-October, stock exchange indexes are falling and economic journalists are shouting and wondering: is the next October stock market crash approaching? That’s a good occasion to recall a good old Mark Twain’s observation: “October: This is one of the peculiarly … Continue reading
