Dimitris Sotiropoulos, John Milios, Spyros Lapatsioras

A Political Economy of Contemporary Capitalism and its Crisis

Demystifying Finance

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Produktbeschreibung

In the aftermath of the global financial meltdown, this book analyses the ongoing financialization of the economy as a development within capitalism, and explores the ways in which it has changed the organization of capitalist power.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 602g
• ISBN-13: 9780415684088
• ISBN-10: 0415684080
• Artikelnr.: 33257611

Autorenporträt

Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos is Lecturer of Economics at Kingston University, London, UK. John Milios is Professor of Political Economy and History of Economic Thought at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. Spyros Lapatsioras is Lecturer of the History of Economic Thought at the University of Crete, Greece.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: The Long Tradition of Finance as a Counter-Productive
Activity in Heterodox Thinking: A Marxian appraisal 1. The Parasitic
Absentee Owner in the Keynes-Veblen-Proudhon Tradition 2. Ricardian Marxism
and Finance as Unproductive Activity 3. Is Finance Productive or
'Parasitic'? Part II: Financial Innovation, Money and Capitalist
Exploitation: A short detour in the history of economic ideas 4.
Derivatives as Money? A short detour in the history of economic ideas 5.
Finance, Discipline and Social Behavior: Tracing the terms of a problem
that was never properly stated Part III: Rethinking Finance: A Marxian
analytical framework 6. Episodes in Finance 7. Fictitious Capital and
Finance: An introduction to Marx's analysis (in the third volume of
Capital) 8. Financialization as a Technology of Power: Incorporating risk
into the Marxian framework Part IV: The Crisis of the Euro Area 9. Towards
a Political Economy of Monetary Unions: Revisiting the crisis of the Euro
area 10. European Governance and its Contradictions Conclusions