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Normalized financial wrongdoing : how re-regulating markets created risks and fostered inequality
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Title
Normalized financial wrongdoing : how re-regulating markets created risks and fostered inequality / Harland Prechel.
ISBN
9781503602380
1503602389
9781503614451
150361445X
9781503614468
Publication
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2021]
Physical Description
xvi, 362 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Summary
"This analysis of financialization ultimately exposes weaknesses in the rentier thesis (made popular by Piketty), which assumes the inevitability of inequality as an outcome of slower economic growth in advanced societies. After demonstrating that the roots of such inequality lay in social structural arrangements of our own making, Prechel considers pre-conditions to change"-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Prechel, Harland. Normalized financial wrongdoing. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2021.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 04, 2021
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The contemporary corporation and private property
Historical transitions from liberalism to neoliberalism
Transforming banks from market enablers to market participants
Converging economic and political interests
Creating risk, engaging in financial malfeasance, and crisis
A "great crisis" in the FIRE sector
The extent and causes of financial malfeasance
Inequality in the twenty-first century
Emancipatory social change.
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