The Routledge International Handbook of Financialization.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- 1. Financialization: An Introduction -- Introduction -- Financialization: a brief history of the field -- Defining financialization -- Organization of the Handbook -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- PART A: Finance and Financialization: Taking Stock -- 2. The Value of Financialization and the Financialization of Value -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3. Entrepreneurship, Finance and Social Stratification: The Socio-Economic Background of Financialization -- Introduction -- Upward Redistribution and Speculative Inflation of Assets as Key Elements of Financialization -- Growth, Entrepreneurship and the Collective Elevator Effect: Socio-economic Contradictions underlying Financialization -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4. Shareholder Primacy and Corporate Financialization -- Introduction -- The Rise of Shareholder Primacy and Firms Competing in the Stock Market -- Survival of the Shareholder Primacy after its Spectacular Failures in the 2000s -- Shareholder Primacy Ten Years after the Great Financial Crisis -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 5. Financialization, Money and the State -- Introduction -- Framing Finance -- Four Approaches to Understanding Financialization, Money and the State -- The New-Keynesian Approach -- The Post-Keynesian Approach -- Post-Keynesianism in Relation to the Other Approaches -- Concluding Reflections on Regulation in the Wake of the Crisis -- Note -- Bibliography -- 6. The Financialization of Life -- Introduction -- Financialization and Everyday Life -- Financialization and Post-structural Theories of Power -- Financialization of Biological Life -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- PART B: Approaches to Studying Financialization -- 7. Financialization as a Socio-technical Process.

Introduction -- Towards an Instrument-based Approach to Financialization -- Methodological Consequences: Studying the Work of Financialization -- Conclusion: Putting the Analytical Framework to Work -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 8. The Anthropological Study of Financialization -- Introduction -- Anthropological Approaches -- The Stakes -- Bibliography -- 9. Feminist and Gender Studies Approaches to Financialization -- Introduction -- Financial Crisis, Austerity, and Resistance -- Hegemonic Masculine Norms and Women's Inclusion -- The Financialization of Social Reproduction and Everyday Life -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 10. How Financialization is Reproduced Politically -- Introduction -- Financialization and the Power of the Financial Industry -- Financialization of the State and Financial Regulation -- Financialization of Non-financial Firms and Financial Regulation -- The Financialization of Everyday Life and its Political Consequences -- Conclusion -- Note -- Bibliography -- 11. Financialization in Heterodox Economics -- Introduction -- The Post-Keynesian Paradigm -- Financialization of the Household Sector -- The Stock-Flow Literature -- Marxist Approaches -- Financialization as Income Expropriation -- Financialization: Taking Stock and Moving Forward -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 12. Financialization and the Uses of History -- Introduction -- Financialization and the Turn to History -- A Radical Historicist Perspective on Financialization -- Conclusion: Towards a Historicist approach to Financialization -- Note -- Bibliography -- PART C: Structures, Spaces and Sites of Financialization -- 13. Financialization and Demand Regimes in Advanced Economies -- Introduction -- Demand Regimes -- Financialization and Demand Regimes -- Interdisciplinary Perspectives: Comparing PKE, IPE, and VoC -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography.

14. Economic Development and Variegated Financialization in Emerging Economies -- Introduction -- Locating Financialization in the Global South -- Measuring Financialization in EMEs -- Comparing Variegated Financialization Across and Within Regions -- The International Dimension -- Nation-state Level -- The City Level -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 15. Subordinate Financialization in Emerging Capitalist Economies -- Introduction -- Internationalization of Production -- Internationalization of Circulation and Profit Realization -- Internationalization of Finance -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 16. Financialization and State Transformations -- Introduction -- The Role of the State in Financialization -- Extending the State-Finance Nexus -- Market Building as State Building -- The Mutual Constitution of State and Finance Infrastructure -- The Leveraging Power of Sovereigns -- The Financialization of the Chinese State -- State Building through Market Building: Making the Chinese Shareholding State -- The Mutual Constitution of State and Finance Infrastructure: The Multiplication of Financial Agents of the Chinese State -- The Leveraging Power of Sovereigns: The Omnipresence of Government Backup -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 17. The Financialization of Real Estate -- Introduction -- Why is Real Estate an Object of Financialization? -- Mortgage Markets -- Commercial Real Estate and Rental Housing -- Coda -- Bibliography -- 18. Financialization and the Environmental Frontier -- Financialization -- Historical Roots of Financialization and the Environmental Frontier -- Moving from Commodification to Financialization -- Financialization and the More-Than-Human -- Resistance and Animism -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 19. Offshore Finance -- Introduction -- A Short History -- A Contemporary Picture -- Key Figures -- The OFC Ranking.

Mechanisms and Players -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- PART D: Actors, Agency and Politics of Financialization -- 20. Central Banking, Shadow Banking, and Infrastructural Power -- Introduction -- The Essential Hybridity of Money and Finance -- In Search of Monetary Governability: Market-based Agency and Infrastructural Entanglement -- Shadow Money in the US and in the Euro Area -- Conclusion -- Note -- Bibliography -- 21. Securities Exchanges: Subjects and Agents of Financialization -- Introduction -- Exchanges in the Financialization Literature -- What is an Exchange? -- The Exchange as Market Actor -- How Exchanges Shape Financialization -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 22. The Rise of Institutional Investors -- Introduction -- Emergence and Overview of Institutional Investors -- The Medium Fee Segment: Actively Managed Mutual Funds -- The High Fee Segment: Private Equity and Hedge Funds -- The Low Fee Segment: Passive Index Funds -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 23. Trusts and Financialization -- Introduction -- Toward a Sociology of Trusts -- Comparing Trusts and Corporations as Privileged Sites of Accumulation -- Quantifying What is Known about Trusts -- Trusts and Financialization -- Economic Dominance of Investors. -- Global Spread of the Anglo-American Approach to Finance. -- Autonomy of Finance from the Nation-state. -- Discussion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 24. Impact Investing, Social Enterprise and Global Development -- Introduction -- Spatial Dynamics of Philanthropy: From Local to Global -- Impact Investing in the Era of Financialization: Social Entrepreneurship and Impact Investing -- A Global Institutional Landscape: The Philanthropy-Finance-Development Complex -- Impact Investing and the Tale of Global Development -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography.

25. Micro-credit and the Financialization of Low-income Households -- Introduction -- Micro-credit and the Financialization of Low-income Households -- Key Actors in Micro-credit Expansion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 26. The Collateralization of Social Policy by Financial Markets in the Global South -- Introduction -- The Context and the Facts -- Bridging the Gap: Collateral for Debt -- Brazil and South Africa: Similar Paths of Collateralization -- In Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 27A. Essay Forum: Labor in Financialization - Value Logics and Labor: Collateral Damage or Central Focus? -- Bibliography -- 27B. Essay Forum: Labor in Financialization - Financialization and/of Migrant Labor -- Financialization and Migrant Labor -- The Financialization of Remittances -- The Financialization of Migrant Workers -- Bibliography -- 27C. Essay Forum: Labor in Financialization - Labor in the Financial Era: Assets, Debt and the Speculative Worker -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 27D. Essay Forum: Labor in Financialization - A Dual Democratization of Finance? Labor's Political Question after Financialization -- Bibliography -- PART E: Techniques, Technologies and Cultures of Financialization -- 28. Culture and Financialization: Four Approaches -- Introduction -- Approaching Financialization and Culture -- Finance Culture -- Cultures of Financialization -- The Financialization of Cultural Production -- Cultural Production about Financialization -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 29. Financialization as Mathematization: The Calculative and Regulatory Consequences of Risk Management -- Introduction -- Calculative Engines of Financialization -- A History of Risk Management -- The Basel Accords: From Ignorance to Enthusiasm -- Securitization as Risk Management -- Conclusion: Post-crisis Denouement -- Bibliography.

30. "A Machine for Living": The Cultural Economy of Financial Subjectivity.

Financialization has become the go-to term for scholars grappling with the growth of finance. This handbook offers the first comprehensive survey of the scholarship on financialization, connecting finance with changes in politics, technology, culture, society and the economy.

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