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...

This short book describes the role big banks played in the financial crisis of 2008 while denouncing the financial oligarchy’s rise to power and the dangers it represents for democracy today. There have been many books since the financial crisis that have considered historical events leading...

Money and finance after the crisis : taking critical stock / Brett Christophers, Andrew Leyshon, and Geoff Mann -- From time-space compression to spatial spreads : situating nationality in global financial liquidity / Dick Bryan, Michael Rafferty and Duncan Wigan -- Financial flows : spatial...

Finance professionals have expressed their views on values, fairness, and culture in the great debate about the global financial crisis and its aftermath. Yet, their positions remain precarious because they stand accused of instigating the crisis, because their views on values, fairness, and...

Greta Krippner submitted Capitalizing on Crisis to Harvard University Press at the end of the summer of 2008, before the Great Recession began. I read it as a member of the press board, and we all thought Krippner had a career ahead as a psychic

This paper develops the building blocks for a legal theory of finance. LTF holds that financial markets are legally constructed and as such occupy an essentially hybrid place between state and market, public and private. At the same time, financial markets exhibit dynamics that frequently put...

In Finance-Led Capitalism , bestselling author and economist Robert Guttmann provides a new conceptual framework to assess the dominate role of modern finance within the workings of our contemporary economic system. This lively and provocative read will challenge some of the core beliefs about...