The rise of a crisis-prone banking sector and its political power has received significant attention following the most recent financial crisis. The crisis sparked a growing interest in understanding how and why we have created a world of large, unstable banks. Excessive banking activity arose...

Supposed portfolio benefits of commodities and the increased availability of commodity linked investment products such as index funds contribute to a financialization of agricultural commodity markets. The parallel increase in price levels and short-term volatility for almost all major...

"$UPERHUBS is a rare, behind-the-scenes look at how the world's most powerful titans, the "superhubs" pull the levers of our global financial system. Combining insider's knowledge with principles of network science, Sandra Navidi offers a startling new perspective on how superhubs build their...

Spikes and Shocks; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1 Introduction; Reference; Part I Conceptualising Financialisation; 2 The History of the Oil Market until the 1980s; References; 3 The Many Faces of Financialisation; 3.1 The Systemic Perspective: Regimes, Capital and...

Acknowledgments -- Abstract -- Introduction: income inequality, labour market and uneven development during financial capitalism -- Definitions, approaches and origins of income inequality -- Theories, methods and varieties of inequality -- The determinants of income inequality in rich countries...

Aaron Sahr beleuchtet die Funktionsweise der Kreditpraxis als Verschränkung von Vertrauensbekundungen und Misstrauensmanifestationen und reflektiert dabei den Siegeszug von Derivaten ebenso wie die Bedeutung von Schattenbankstrukturen, die Rolle der Ratingagenturen und algorithmisierter...

"Eight years on from the biggest market meltdown since the Great Depression, the key lessons of the crisis of 2008 still remain unlearned--and our financial system is just as vulnerable as ever. Many of us know that our government failed to fix the banking system after the subprime mortgage...