Fictions of Financialization

Rethinking Speculation, Exploitation and Twenty-First Century Capitalism

af Nick Bernards

For decades, many people on the left have decried the finance sector as the main culprit for the toxic effects of capitalism. Financialization is commonly invoked to explain everything from growing inequality to the housing crises and the destruction of the environment. Only by confronting finance, as the story goes, can there be hope for a more sustainable economy. In this new intervention, Nick Bernards makes the case against the dominance of this story. Arguing that the concept of financializ... (Læs mere)