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The Global Debate on Finance Capitalism
This chapter discusses the relationship between neoliberalism and finance capitalism or financialisation and establishes a conceptual framework for...
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Monetising Social Impact: A Critique of the ‘Financialisation’ of Social Value
In this chapter the authors will critically examine the concept of ‘social value’, and how it has come to be tied up with the commodification and...
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Conclusion: Rethinking Finance Capitalism and Income Inequality Nexus
In this chapter, comparative analysis across the four cases is deployed, exploring the similarities and differences in (a) the processes of...
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Map** the actor landscape of a future fintech-funded renewable energy ecosystem in Hong Kong
As Hong Kong seeks to strengthen its position as one of the global centres for green finance, opportunities in terms of financing decarbonisation...
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USA: The Birth of Finance Capitalism
This chapter critically examines the US case, as it is the country of origin of neoliberalism and it is essential to analyse how the subsequent...
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Finance Capital, Financialisation and the Periodisation of Capitalist Development
This chapter provides a detailed comparison between Hilferding’s work on finance capital and contemporary accounts of financialisation. Kilmister...
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How to Study Inequality of the Finance Capitalism Era
This chapter offers the investigatory strategy that elaborates the approaches and methods undertaken. A critical realist orientation as a...
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Finance Capitalism and Income Inequality in the Contemporary Global Economy A Comparative Study of the USA, South Korea, Argentina and Sweden
This book explores the causes of rising income inequality within industrialised, develo**, and emerging economies. The development of finance...
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Potential for Upgrading in Financialised Agri-food Chains: The Case of Ghanaian Cocoa
We revisit functional upgrading opportunities for develo** and emerging market companies in the context of highly financialised food systems. We...
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Why so moderate? Understanding millennials’ views on the urban housing affordability crisis in the post-socialist context of the Czech Republic
The housing affordability crisis is one of the most pressing issues in urban centres around the globe, affecting especially young adults. Some...
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From the Birth of the Euro to the Eurozone Crisis: What Went Wrong?
This chapter offers a historical analysis of the creation of the Eurozone, its institutional features and inefficiencies, the uneven economic...
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Private Hospital Groups in Spain: Business Concentration and Penetration in Public Health
This study analyses central aspects of the financialisation of the hospital sector in Spain, such as the expansion of the leading companies and the...
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It’s the Economy, Stupid! Neoliberal Nonsense and the Myths of the Free Market
The foundations of modern economics are shaky, while the crisis-prone system of capitalism is being increasingly organised to serve the interests of...
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Argentina: Entrenching Income Inequality
This chapter examines the Argentine case, which is an emblematic example of massive redistribution in favour of the capitalist class, who not only...
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The Great Leverager
In this chapter, we describe how the playing field of the market is changing significantly. If we do not meet unchecked risks and unmet...
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Price-Setting Power in Global Value Chains: The Cases of Price Stabilisation in the Cocoa Sectors in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana
This paper calls for integrating price-setting power and related uneven exposure to price risks into the analysis of governance in global value...
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Finance Capital and Contemporary Financialisation
In contrast to the judgement that Hilferding’s concept of finance capital is irrelevant to contemporary developments because today the relations...
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Accumulation by Land Rent and Territorial Disputes in a Brazilian Agricultural Frontier
Land grabbing has changed the agrarian question on a world scale, much more intensely from the first decade of the twenty-first century with the...
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The Financialised Subject of Risk
Statistical procedures are used to model the probabilities of servicing the loan or loan defaults by assigning credit ratings, which decide on the...
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Gendered Narratives on Financial Inclusion: Global and Continental Context
The dawn of the twenty-first century brought a new light to the world. Countries and global bodies recognised “empowerment of women” (in education,...