The Pursuit of (Past) Happiness? Middle-class Indebtedness and American Financialisation

Montgomerie, Johnna

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“…1 Apenas mais recentemente algumas abordagens de economia política se têm debruçado sobre as crescentes relações das famílias com o setor financeiro, como parte de um fenómeno mais lato, que se tem designado genericamente por financeirização (Ertuk et al, 2007;dos Santos, 2009;Lapavitsas, 2009;Montgomerie, 2009). O estudo do consumo e do crédito encontra -se, assim, numa fase muito embrionária, identificando -se grandes tendências, sem que estas estejam ainda firmemente suportadas por análises mais aprofundadas sobre a relação entre ambos, as diversas formas que esta toma em diferentes contextos e os seus impactos sobre os variados grupos sociais.…”

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“…O crescente endividamento das famílias nas economias capitalistas mais avançadas tem atraído a atenção de economistas políticos, situando este importante fenómeno num conjunto mais vasto de profundas transformações socioeconómicas que se traduziram numa crescente influência do setor financeiro (dos seus agentes, processos e produtos) na atividade das famílias, empresas e Estados, processo que a literatura crítica designa por financeirização (Epstein, 2005;Ertuk et al, 2007;dos Santos, 2009;Lapavitsas, 2009;Montgomerie, 2009).…”

Section: A Economia Política Do Consumo E Do Crédito àS Famíliasunclassified

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A economia política do consumo e do crédito às famílias: Um contributo interdisciplinar

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Teles³

2013

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A economia política do consumo e do crédito às famílias: Um contributo interdisciplinar

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2013

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“…Les taux et les quantités d'épargne mondiale ont été massivement orientés vers l'Est afin de servir les intérêts des économies de la Chine en particulier et fournir des fonds pour l'expansion de la dette américaine (McKinnon et Schnabl, 2009 ;Quah, 2011). Une telle dynamique a fourni des éléments contextuels précurseurs de la crise financière et a permis à une bulle financière et immobilière de se développer bien au-delà de ce qui aurait été envisageable dans d'autres conditions (Wade, 2004 ;Montgomerie, 2009).…”

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Conceptualiser les faiblesses de la gouvernance mondiale : au-delà de la crise financière

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Maertens³

2012

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Comment devrions-nous conceptualiser les faiblesses de la gouvernance mondiale associée à la récente crise financière mondiale ? Nous soutenons que la gouvernance mondiale financière a pu être caractérisée par l’intrication d’un système de communication et de coordination, responsable de quelques réussites majeures. Ses échecs peuvent être conceptualisés à la fois en termes de manque de capacités institutionnelles d’une part, de représentation et de responsabilité d’autre part. Ces problèmes ne sont cependant pas spécifiques au domaine de la finance, et envahissent d’autres domaines tels que les systèmes de sécurité et la gouvernance environnementale mondiale. Ainsi, les défaillances dans la gouvernance financière mondiale peuvent être englobées dans le défi plus vaste qu’impose une gouvernance mondiale, avec des racines et des causes plus profondes que la plupart des études universitaires s’attachent à démontrer.

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“…However, in a wider society subordinated to the logic of capital, these differences become functional to capital in its quest for dominance over the production and reproduction of labour power. Such differential reproduction is also in large part dependent on inequalities of wealth, income and access to credit (Montgomerie, 2009;Roberts, 2015;Soederberg, 2014). To ask these questions begs a focus not just on the production of inequality in the social relations of production but on the consolidation and extension of inequality within and between households in the social relations of reproduction.…”

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The production and reproduction of inequality in the UK in times of austerity

Nunn

2016

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. The paper also benefited from the very helpful comments and input of three anonymous reviewers.Thanks and gratitude to all, but errors and omissions are the author's alone. AbstractInequality appears to be back on the intellectual and political agenda. This paper provides a commentary on this renewed interest, drawing on an empirical discussion of inequality in the UK. The paper argues that inequality should be seen as produced in the inherently unequal social relations of production, drawing attention to the role of social struggle in shaping dynamics of inequality. However, inequality is not just produced in dynamic class struggle in the formal economy, but also through the social reproduction of labour power on a day-to-day and inter-generational basis. As such, inequalities of household resources at any point in time may be reproductive of greater future inequality. It is argued that inequality has risen in the UK over recent decades because of changes in the social relations of production in the formal 2 economy and social reproduction in the domestic sector, both of which have witnessed significant state interventions that have increased structural inequalities. It is argued that, absent of significant change, the underpinning structural dynamics in the UK will lead to further increases in inequality over the short and longer-term.Given this, we might expect to see an already emergent 'New Politics of Inequality' intensifying in the coming decades.

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The Pursuit of (Past) Happiness? Middle-class Indebtedness and American Financialisation

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A economia política do consumo e do crédito às famílias: Um contributo interdisciplinar

A economia política do consumo e do crédito às famílias: Um contributo interdisciplinar

Conceptualiser les faiblesses de la gouvernance mondiale : au-delà de la crise financière

The production and reproduction of inequality in the UK in times of austerity

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