In this timely and thought-provoking book, Eckhard Hein illustrates that the Great Recession, which hit the world economy in 2008/09, is rooted in the contradic

Financialisation has become a widely discussed and debated term leading to a plurality of perspectives, but no fixed definition or single reading. This book pre

There can be no doubt that the influence of the financial sphere has intensified rapidly in recent years, but there is much debate about the effect of that infl

The term financialization is a term that has become popular to describe developments within the global economy, and particularly within developed industrialized

'The rise to dominance of finance in the past three decades has had many profound effects on economic performance. In this book Eckhard Hein provides us with de