We welcome theoretical and empirical analysis without preference for particular. Its most prominent feature is the rise of financial profit, in part extracted from households through financial expropriation. Readers will also appreciate his detailed yet clear graphical presentations of data. Lapavitsas, whose book profiting without producing characterises our period as one of financialisation rather than neoliberalism, postfordism or globalisation, argues that capitalism has been financialised and it is urgent that the lefts agenda includes definancialisation. What i felt was missing from these analyses of late capitalism, financialization, and neoliberalism was an analysis of racializing processes an. Profiting without producing puts forth a distinctive view defining financialization in terms of the fundamental conduct of nonfinancial enterprises, banks and households. The greek turmoil commenced as a balance of payments, or sudden stop, crisis induced by large current account and primary government deficits. Political economy of the greek crisis costas lapavitsas, 2019. Profiting without producing how finance exploits us all. It has become a popular view among many economists that rising inequality of wealth and income in the major economies over the last 40 years or so is a major cause of crises slumps under capitalism. Profiting without producing is a major contribution to our understanding of financialization and its discontents. Costas lapavitsas discusses the financialization of capitalism.
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Profiting without producing a lecture by costas lapavitsas. Oct 19, 2018 buy the left case against the eu by lapavitsas, costas isbn. Unctad the neoliberal capture of the state has laid the ground for the financialization of capitalism, a stage of capitalism that cannot be reversed without developing new methods of public provision in housing, education, health, pensions and the other sources financialization has used to create profit. Financialization at a watershed in the usa show all authors. How finance exploits us all, london and new york 20, pp. Pdf profiting without producing how finance exploits us. A treatise on modern alchemy or on the contemporary magus and the ways in which she hides its criminal craft under a thin veil of market rationality. Professor lapavitsas, a marxist economist, has been one of the most effective. Jan 14, 2014 profiting without producing is a major contribution to our understanding of financialization and its discontents. Policy series 2 costas lapavitsas state and finance in financialised capitalism in the public interest.
Mar 05, 2014 the lecture by costas lapavitsas, professor of economics at the school of oriental and african studies, university of london celebrates the release by verso press of profiting without producing. Political economy of the greek crisis costas lapavitsas. Dec 11, 20 financialization is a systemic transformation of capitalism that has occurred during the last four decades. Lapavitsas, c, mendietamunoz, i 2017 explaining the historic rise in financial profits in the us economy. University of london, and the author of profiting without producing. Jan 14, 2014 profiting without producing puts forth a distinctive view defining financialization in terms of the fundamental conduct of nonfinancial enterprises, banks and households. Costas lapavitsas is a professor of economics at the school of. Thank you very much for taking the time to answer a few questions about your book and your general work.
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The lecture by costas lapavitsas, professor of economics at the school of oriental and african studies, university of london celebrates the. Robert pollin, political economy research institute, university of massachusettsamherst costas lapavitsas has provided an original account of the difficulties that economies will face recovering from the 2008 economic crisis. Profiting from financialization, secular stagnation and wage anchors. Nov 01, 20 profiting without producing puts forth a distinctive view defining financialization in terms of the fundamental conduct of nonfinancial enterprises, banks and households. Lecture on the financialisation of the uk economy in. Profiting without producing puts forth a distinctive view defining financialization in terms of the fundamental conduct of nonfinancial enterprises, banks and. It became an economic and social disturbance of hist. This paper shows that the concept of financialization originates in marxist theory, though its meaning remains unclear. Expansion and risis, social foundations of markets, money and redit and political economy of money and finance. Costas lapavitsas ebooks epub and pdf downloads ebookmall. Costas lapavitsas, department of economics, soas university of london, office 269, thornhaugh street, russell square, london wc1h 0xg, uk. Professor costas lapavitsas, school of oriental and african studies. Costas lapavitsas has published widely in the academic field, and writes frequently for the international and the greek press.
Financerelated capital permeates economic activity, and interacts with financial markets in ways capable of generating enormous profits but also precipitating. Flassbeck, verso 2015 profiting without producing, verso, 20. Its most prominent financialization is one of the most innovative concepts to emerge in the field of political economy during the last three decades, although there is no. Download pdf profiting without producing how finance exploits us all book full free. In profiting without producing, lapavitsas ultimately aims to explain three historical phenomena. This paper shows that the concept of financialization originates in marxist theory, thoug. Lambert, wharton school, university of pennsylvania. Mar 31, 2015 profiting from financialization, secular stagnation and wage anchors. On february 25, 2014, the center for the study of europe, in collaboration with the center for the study of asia and bus undergraduate economics association, hosted costas lapavitsas, professor of economics at the school of oriental and african studies, university of london. Jan 26, 2014 professor costas lapavitsas, school of oriental and african studies. Crisis in the eurozone, verso, 2012, together with several rmf researchers. In the substantial body of marxist literature emerging in the wake of the economic crisis that began in 20078, two broad positions have been evident.
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