The turmoil of 2007-2009 is a crisis of financialised capitalism. This collected volume analyses financialisation by drawing on Marxist and heterodox theory of finance. It examines domestic and international aspects of financialisation, placing the crisis in its appropriate social context.

Is it possible to bail Japan out of its lingering financial slump by the means of transition to an Anglo-American financial system and a convergence to Basel pragmatism? This paper argues that the imprudent convergence to an Anglo-American type management in credit risks without the...