The turmoil of 2007-2009 is a crisis of financialised capitalism. This collected volume analyses financialisation by drawing on Marxist and heterodox theory of finance. It examines domestic and international aspects of financialisation, placing the crisis in its appropriate social context.

"This book is the work of a research collective comprising authors from several parts of the world. It analyses issues from the perspective of Marxist political economy and puts forth alternative anti-capitalist proposals."