Empirically, financialisation analysis can be addressed from either a macroeconomic or micr oeconomic perspective. In aggregate terms, the former implies observing the growing influence exerted by financial transactions, overly dominant financial markets and alterations to industrial economy...

In this paper we analyze how profitability crisis in the seventies was overcome by means of neoliberal reforms, with a main support in financial liberalization and deregulation. These policies have impelled the setting up of a new international financial architecture, characterized by the great...