As accumulation has globalized, national economic indicators such as the balance of payments have been increasingly called on to provide popular measures of national economic performance. Yet at the same time the possibility of defining the national economy as a unit is becoming more ambiguous....

Financialization challenges some established ways of thinking within Marxist categories. We explore the way in which financialization is not simply shifting the balance of power between classes and generating economic volatility, but also re-constituting our understanding of class (as a formal...