The purpose of this paper is threefold. First is to comment upon the nature of financialisation. Second is to frame how this leads financialisation to be understood whether consciously or otherwise. And, third, is to draw out implications for surveying households as their experiences and...

This paper addresses the scope and possibilities for integrating economics with other human and social sciences. It identifies and discusses two competing ways to achieve integration: a perspective based on the expansion of neoclassical economics and another approach that aims to build on the...

The global financial and economic crisis, and in particular the perceived failure of economics to predict the crisis, has led to questioning of the methodology of economics. Some have championed the methodological approach of ‘critical realism’ as fostering a more realistic economic theory...

This paper examines the dynamics behind the rise in household indebtedness across different countries as a part of financialisation of household income over the last few decades. It argues that the current rise in consumer credit and household debt is historically unique, especially regarding...

This paper is a review and critique of the pension policy literature that discusses trends in the evolution of pension systems in the European Union over the last three decades, and the determinants of those trends. It is argued here that much of the analysis of recent developments remains at...

The objective of this report is to provide a general overview of the process of transformation and development of the financial system in Spain that has taken place since the decade of the seventies in the past century. The report shows the main distinctive features of the financialisation...

This study argues that financializations is not a phenomenon exclusively associated with complex innovation in highly developed financial markets. Financialization also affects countries with 'shallow' financial markets but with a significant presence of transnational financial actors that...