The victory of the National People’s Power (NPP) candidate, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, in the Sri…
The Financialization of Everything Servaas Storm
The following article forms the Introduction to a set of 10 articles which assess the logic and consequences of ‘financialization’ across a range of geographic, economic and social scales — deep down, at the level of ‘ideas’, and also by providing ‘knock-out evidence’ on the social inefficiency of a capitalism ‘without compulsions’ for finance. The authors in the Debate expose how establishment economics has been hiding its reactionary political agenda behind the pretence of scientific neutrality. The financial emperor wears no clothes.
(This article was originally posted at Wiley Online Library on January 24, 2018.)