"Combining balance sheet analysis with historical institutional analysis, this book traces the evolution of social sector financial balance sheets in the US from 1960-2018. This innovative historical-institutional approach, ranging from the micro level of households to the macro level of the...

Introduction -- Compounding financialization, critical pluralist political economy, and historical-institutional balance-sheet analysis -- Political economy and the financialization of American banking -- The centralization and financialization of American monetary authority -- Shadow banking,...