“…A small but growing literature documents similar changes in the financial practices and relations of economic agents in ECEs to those observed in CCEs (Demir, 2008, Demir, 2009, Ergüneş, 2012, Ertürk, 2003, Gabor, 2013, Painceira, 2008, Powell, 2013, Rethel, 2010, Bonizzi, 2013, Correa et al, 2012, Doucette and Seo, 2011, Karacimen, 2014, Levy-Orlik, 2012, FESSUD, 2013. Financialisation in Brazil has been analysed, among others, by Coutinho and Belluzzo (1998), Miranda et al (2009), Painceira (2011), Bruno et al (2011), Araujo et al (2012), andBin (2016). Few of these contributions though focus explic itly on the question of how financialisation in ECEs might differ from that in CCEs.…”