Format:
1 online resource (289 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415684088
,
9781135037925
Series Statement:
Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy Series
Content:
In the aftermath of the global financial meltdown, this book analyses the ongoing financialization of the economy as a development within capitalism, and explores the ways in which it has changed the organization of capitalist power
Note:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I The long tradition of finance as a counter-productive activity in heterodox thinking: a Marxian appraisal -- 1 The parasitic absentee owner in the Keynes-Veblen-Proudhon tradition -- 2 Ricardian Marxism and finance as unproductive activity -- 3 Is finance productive or "parasitic?" -- PART II Financial innovation, money, and capitalist exploitation: a short detour in the history of economic ideas -- 4 Derivatives as money? -- 5 Finance, discipline, and social behavior: tracing the terms of a problem that was never properly stated -- PART III Rethinking finance: a Marxian analytical framework -- 6 Episodes in finance -- 7 Fictitious capital and finance: an introduction to Marx's analysis (in the third volume of Capital) -- 8 Financialization as a technology of power: incorporating risk into the Marxian framework -- PART IV The crisis of the Euro area -- 9 Towards a political economy of monetary unions: revisiting the crisis of the Euro area -- 10 European governance and its contradictions -- Conclusion: a theoretical and political project for the future -- Notes -- References -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Sotiropoulos, Dimitris A Political Economy of Contemporary Capitalism and Its Crisis Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2013 ISBN 9780415684088
Language:
English
Keywords:
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