This paper reviews the literature on the finance-growth nexus within a neoclassical growth framework, placing an … Agenda. While more research is needed to establish causality and verify the theoretical channels linking access to finance …

In various writings Karl Marx made references to an "aristocracy of finance" in Western Europe and the United States … decades, and especially in the context of the current crisis, a new "aristocracy of finance" has emerged, as corporate … holdings of the public debt have become rapidly concentrated in favor of large corporations classified within Finance …