) 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 …

-term developments and regime shifts in capitalist development, are presented. International approaches to finance and financial crises …