Introduction -- The institutional structure, state and state-owned financial institutional arrangements -- Monetization and financial control by the state -- Financial support to the gradual reform -- The model of money demand during transition -- Transitional arrangements of the financial...

The centrality of finance -- Financialization and social structures of accumulation -- Realism in financial economics -- The shadow of the financial system -- The coming apart -- Rescue and the limits of reform -- Nations, globalization, and financialization -- The present in history