New Book: The Power of Finance – Financialization and the Real Economy

February 4, 2020

Category: Capitalism, fictitious capital, Finance, Financial Crisis, financialization, Malcolm Sawyer

By Malcolm Sawyer. From Agenda Publishing: Finance has long been an integral part of the capitalist economy, yet since

New book: When Things Don’t Fall Apart – Global Financial Governance and Developmental Finance in an Age of Productive Incoherence

March 18, 2018

Category: Development, Finance, Financial Crisis, Global Economic Governance, Ilene Grabel, International Finance, International Monetary System, International Political Economy, world economy, World-System

By Ilene Grabel. From MIT Press: In When Things Don’t Fall Apart, Ilene Grabel challenges the dominant view that the gl

Are We Heading for Another Economic Crash?

January 17, 2018

Category: Andrew Ross, Cédric Durand, Cihan Aksan, crisis, Dario Azzellini, David Kotz, Financial Crisis, Great recession, Heikki Patomäki, Jon Bailes, Lena Rethel, Mary Mellor, Michael Roberts, Minqi Li, Richard Murphy, Susan Newman, Tim Di Muzio, Wolfgang Streek, world economy, Ying Chen

By Cihan Aksan & Jon Bailes, This article was first published by State of Nature, as part of the monthly “One Q

New Book: Financial Underpinnings of Europe’s Financial Crisis – Liberalization, Integration, and Asymmetric State Power

November 24, 2017

Category: crisis, Euro Crisis, Europe, European Union, Eurozone, Financial Crisis, Financial Liberalization, financialization, Great recession, Instability, Nina Eichacker, Securitization

By Nina Eichacker. From Edward Elgar: This book analyzes how financial liberalization affected the development of th

New Book: Worst-Case Economics – Extreme Events in Climate and Finance

November 9, 2017

Category: Climate Change, crisis, Environment, Finance, Financial Crisis, Frank Ackerman, Macroeconomics, Public Policy

By Frank Ackerman. From Anthem Press: Worst-case scenarios are all too real, and all too common. The financial crisis o

New Book: Who’s Afraid of John Maynard Keynes? Challenging Economic Governance in an Age of Growing Inequality

November 2, 2017

Category: Financial Crisis, Heterodox Economics, Inequality, Keynes, Keynesianism, Paul Davidson, Post-Keynesian, Stagnation, world economy

By Paul Davidson. From Palgrave: Davidson explains the importance of the market economy, and unveils how and why globa

New Book: Playing with Fire – Deepened Financial Integration and Changing Vulnerabilities of the Global South

June 23, 2017

Category: Balance of Payments Constraint, David Fields, Debt, Dependency Theory, Development, Financial Crisis, Financial Liberalization, Global South, Globalization, Periphery, Public Debt, world economy, World-System, Yilmaz Akyüz

By Yilmaz Akyüz. From Oxford University Press: Starting in the early 1990s many emerging and developing economies (ED

Call for Papers: The Real Estate/Financial Complex International Conference

June 13, 2017

Category: Call For Papers, conferences, David Fields, Finance, Financial Crisis, Financial System, financialization, Manuel Aalbers, Real Estate

September (19-)20-22, 2017 (exact start and end time: t.b.d.) Leuven, Belgium We have a few openings for speakers at th

New Book: Fictitious Capital – How Finance Is Appropriating Our Future

June 12, 2017

Category: Capitalism, Cédric Durand, David Fields, Debt, Finance, Financial Crisis, Financial System, financialization, Human Potential, Money, Money & Banking, Political economy, Verso

by Cédric Durand, translated by David Broder. From Verso: The 2007–08 credit crisis and the long recession that follow

Another US Housing Bubble?

May 24, 2017

Category: Bubbles, crisis, David Fields, Debt, Financial Crisis, financialization, Great recession, Housing, Michael Hudson, The Real News Network

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPgkDk1U42k&w=760&h=500] Michael Hudson explains that eve

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