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...

Financialisation in Iceland should be seen as an evolving process driven by a mixture of global and domestic forces. Responding to fundamental issues underlying macroeconomic imbalances, the authorities introduced policies that proved particularly supportive of financial expansion at a time when...

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...

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...

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...

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...

We argue that the present crisis and stalling economy that have been ongoing since 2007 are rooted in the delusionary belief in policies based on a "perpetual money machine" type of thinking. We document strong evidence that, since the early 1980s, consumption has been increasingly funded by...

We present an investigation into the long-run effects of financialisation on income distribution before the financial and economic crises for Germany, one of the major mercantilist export-led economies. The analysis builds on a Kaleckian approach towards the examination of the effects of...

Germany's recent export successes and the fast recovery from the 2007 -2009 crisis made it Europe's "economic superstar" in public opinion. This paper interprets the German performance against the background of financialisation. After an examination of the pre-crisis demand and growth regime,...