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Risky Expertise in Chinese Financialisation Returned Labour and the State-Finance Nexus
This book focuses on the subjectivities of stock market investors to explore tensions within the Chinese state’s engagement in contemporary financial...
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Three Pillars of the Global Governance of Coffee Production
Coffee marketed worldwide as green beans, roasted and ground, soluble and in capsules, as well as in various ready to drink beverages, its production...
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The Sociocultural Significance of Homeownership in Brunei Darussalam
Houses matter to Bruneians. However, there are varying values and meanings attached to a house depending on spatial and cultural differences, which...
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The Second Financialisation
This chapter reconstructs how the process of financialisation changed the behaviour of the financial system. The author examines first this issue...
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A league made in the economy’s image: destabilised stability and the English Premier League’s Minsky moment
The English Premier League (EPL) has drawn the attention of scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds in recent years, yet its underlying...
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Marx and the Category of Fictitious Profits: Some Notes on the Brazilian Economy
Financialisation theories have occupied an important place in the debate about contemporary capitalism and its transformations, involving a set of...
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The Regulatory Dynamics of Sustainable Finance: Paradoxical Success and Limitations of EU Reforms
The financial sector has seen a transformation towards ‘sustainable’ finance particularly in Europe, driven also by unprecedented regulatory reforms....
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Explaining the Neoliberal Turn: Structural Theories
The consideration in Chap. 3 of the damaging impact of Neoliberal social and economic policies on inequality and...
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How entrepreneurs learn in their region: entrepreneurial strategies, financialisation and narrative learning in the Vienna biotechnology cluster
How entrepreneurs plan their business and build their companies plays a central role in how academia-industry-government relations are shaped in a...
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Special Issue: Financialisation: continuity and change
Across the social sciences and within political economy, financialisation has become a prominent theme. It is most commonly defined as a rise in the... -
Political Economy: Crisis and Response
In this chapter the influence of Marxist thinking on planning studies is addressed with an emphasis on the structural dimensions of capital...
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Global City
A decade of high inflation and widespread industrial disputes in the 1970s shifted the political consensus from the collectivist politics of the...
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Growth drivers in emerging capitalist economies: building blocks for a post-Keynesian analysis and an empirical exploration of the years before and after the Global Financial Crisis
This paper contributes to the growth models debate by expanding the concept of growth drivers to emerging capitalist economies (ECEs). Conceptually,...
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Conclusion
In this brief final chapter, I note strong similarities between the key questions that have arisen in recent Marxist literature concerning the...
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Volunteering Hierarchies in the Global South: Remuneration and Livelihoods
This paper explores volunteering and inequality in the global South through an analysis of volunteering remuneration. We argue that the growing...
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Geopolitics
A geopolitical approach framed in historical materialism to analyse the world crisis of US capitalism and the viability of the nation-state system,...
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Neo-liberalized Housing Policy and Urban Accessibility: the relevance of perception in intermediate cities. The case of Temuco, Chile
The neoliberal model of housing production has been installed in most Latin American countries. However, in most cases it has resulted in problems of...
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The Vulnerability of the American Empire-State
This chapter deals with the rise of financialised capitalism in the West and its crisis in a historical perspective. It counters arguments that...
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Conclusions
The Eurozone has been a unique experiment of economic and monetary integration in modern history. The introduction of the single European currency in...