This paper begins by defining, and distinguishing between, money and finance, and addresses alternative ways of … financing spending. We next examine the role played by financial institutions (e.g., banks) in the provision of finance. The … role of government as both regulator of private institutions and provider of finance is also discussed, and related topics …

private sector debt in the United States and many other countries, financialization of the global economy (itself a very …

subsistence spending. But today's budgets are dominated by payments to the finance, insurance, and real estate (FIRE) sector and … off property and onto employment and retail sales spurs the financialization of family and business budgets as tax cuts on …

debt ridden—a contagion that now threatens to move into Brazil and other BRIC countries as banks seek to finance buyouts …

financial sector to claim an ever-rising proportion of national income—what is sometimes called "financialization"—as the …

The 2008 global financial crisis was the consequence of the process (1) of financialization, or the creation of massive …

Financialization creates space for the financial sector in economies, and in doing so helps to raise the share of … finance on their part. This paper traces the above pattern in corporate holdings of assets and its implications, with emphasis …

innovation was reducing costs but breeding monopolies as the finance, insurance, and real estate (FIRE) sectors joined forces to … finance robber barons who had no better use of their wealth than to reduce great artworks to the status of ownership trophies …