"This book explores the impact of finance on urban spaces as well as cities' role in the social constitution and dissemination of financial logics and techniques. It brings together literatures from different disciplinary areas to increase our understanding of financialization. It observes how...

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"In The Politics of Public Debt Daniel Bin analyzes how fiscal and monetary policies and the administration of public debt related to class, labor, and democracy during the period of neoliberal financialization in Brazil. Sustained by state action, the politico-economic context allowed the...

"This book describes the importance of finance and real estate for the emergence of authoritarian regimes. Through an ethnographic study of the pseudo-oligarchs, failed European businessmen, frustrated managers, and unpaid workers that populate Macedonia's construction sector, Fabio Mattioli...

Klassen und Schichten wurden in der sozialwissenschaftlichen Debatte angezweifelt. Hier wird die aktuelle Debatte über soziale Ungleichheit referiert, der Gegensatz zwischen Arm und Reich und die prekären Verhältnisse für viele untersucht und aktuelle Entwicklungen bewertet. (2)