"Financialization is a set of processes which has led to a financially-driven and commodified economy with rising inequality, tax avoidance, the lack of investment in the physical and social infrastructure. Given the influence of money politics, and the secular increase in the burden of debt,...

Introduction -- The Contemporary Setting and Significance of Financialization -- The Costs of Financial System Failure -- Inequality and Financialization -- Value Extraction and Monopoly -- The Mainline Tradition and Endogenous Cycles -- Inflation in the Contemporary Conjuncture -- Finance and...