1st Edition

Financialization and Macroeconomics The Impact on Social Welfare in Advanced Economies

By Giovanni Scarano Copyright 2023
214 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

214 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

214 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Financialisation has become a widely discussed and debated term leading to a plurality of perspectives, but no fixed definition or single reading. This book presents a critical exploration and review of the current literature on financialisation, focusing on the financialisation of NFCs and its possible implications for the macroeconomic and financial stability of advanced countries. Starting... Read more

Introduction.  1.Post-Keynesian approaches.  2.The French Regulation School and the Social Structures of Accumulation approach.  3.Classical Marxist approaches.  4.Interest bearing capital vs industrial capital.  5.Financial rentiers and the revenant conflict between rent and profit.  6.Corporate saving glut and liquidity holding.  7.Financialisation of NFCs, globalisation and growth.  8.Conclusion

Biography

Giovanni Scarano is Professor of Economics at Roma Tre University and a member of STOREP (Italian Association for the History of Political Economy).