This paper examines three questions: 1) How and why have financial models of doing business emerged in the last three decades? 2) What new forms of financial capitalism have become important in the current period? 3) How do new financial intermediaries, such as private equity, and the financial...

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Private Equity: Investors as Managers -- Chapter 2. Institutional Change and the Emergence of Private Equity -- Chapter 3. The Business Model: How Private Equity Makes Money -- Chapter 4. The...

The goal of this paper is to develop a comprehensive research agenda to analyze trends in domestic outsourcing in the United States — firms’ use of contractors and independent contractors — and its effects on job quality and inequality. In the process, we review definitions of outsourcing,...