) Courts intervene in politics, including public finance. Specifically, this paper seeks to investigate empirically whether …

In various writings Karl Marx made references to an "aristocracy of finance" in Western Europe and the United States … decades, and especially in the context of the current crisis, a new "aristocracy of finance" has emerged, as corporate … holdings of the public debt have become rapidly concentrated in favor of large corporations classified within Finance …

growth and high unemployment, he believes, should be placed squarely on the country's finance department and central bank …