Financial Flows

Post-crisis capitalism and critiqueHow is it possible to critique capitalism when it is being recreated through self-criticism?The financial crisis of 2007-2008, fears of China's expansion and the rise of popularism have generated new speculations within institutions that govern the economy. The IMF and World Bank worry about inequality and urge investment policies such as infrastructure provisioning. Central banks and academic macro-economists question formal equilibrium models and explore the human foundations of economic action. Financial institutions and corporations focus on ethical investment and build allianceswith 'patient' capital such as pension funds. And governments argue that they face radical economic uncertainties and can only ameliorate complex forces. We live within a post-crisis capitalism in which public contention about its social consequences is Commented [B1]: Campbell, 2015 is not in the References. LB Added Commented [B4]: Sneath et al.

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Finance/security/life

Langley

2017

Finance soc.

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What is the contemporary relation between finance and security? This essay encourages further research into the securitization of finance by developing the notion of ‘finance/security/life’. A focus on the intersections of finance/security/life will be shown to prompt a broadened range of critical, cross-disciplinary concerns with the various ways in which financial markets are positioned as vital to securing wealth, welfare and wellbeing.

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Financial Flows

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