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Since the death of Hyman Minsky in 1996, much has been written about financialization. This paper explores the issues … that Minsky examined in the last decade of his life and considers their relationship to that financialization literature … how Minsky’s observations and framework represent a major contribution to the study of financialization. Part IV …
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Financialization is a process whereby financial markets, financial institutions, and financial elites gain greater … influence over economic policy and economic outcomes. Financialization transforms the functioning of economic systems at both … contribute to wage stagnation. Additionally, there are reasons to believe that financialization may put the economy at risk of …
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This paper applies Hyman Minsky’s approach to provide an analysis of the causes of the global financial crisis. Rather than finding the origins in recent developments, this paper links the crisis to the long-term transformation of the economy from a robust financial structure in the 1950s to...
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The aim of this paper is to develop a structural explanation of the subprime mortgage crisis, grounded on the combination of two apparently incompatible financial theories: the financial instability hypothesis by Hyman P. Minsky and the theory of capital market inflation by Jan Toporowski. Our...
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This paper explores from a historical perspective the process of financialization over the course of the 20th century …. We identify four phases of financialization: the first, from the 1900s to 1933 (early financialization); the second, from … early 1970s and leads to the Great Recession (complex financialization). Our findings indicate that the main features of the …
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This paper examines the causes and consequences of the current global financial crisis. It largely relies on the work of Hyman Minsky, although analyses by John Kenneth Galbraith and Thorstein Veblen of the causes of the 1930s collapse are used to show similarities between the two crises. K.W....
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The world's worst economic crisis since the 1930s is now well into its third year. All sorts of explanations have been proffered for the causes of the crisis, from lax regulation and oversight to excessive global liquidity. Unfortunately, these narratives do not take into account the systemic...
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This is the first part of a three-part analysis of the Minskyan framework. Via an extensive review of the literature, this paper looks at 12 essential elements necessary to get a good understanding of Minsky's theory, and argues that those elements are central to comprehend how a monetary...
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This is the second part of a three-part analysis of the Minskyan framework. It studies in detail the dynamics at the root of the endogenous financial weakening of capitalist economic systems. This part combines the properties presented in part I with other important concepts, such as the paradox...
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Financialization creates space for the financial sector in economies, and in doing so helps to raise the share of …
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