Fictions Of Financialization - Nick Bernards

For decades, many people on the left have decried the finance sector as the main culprit for the toxic effects of capitalism. Only by confronting finance, so the story goes, can there be any hope for a more sustainable economy.

Nick Bernards makes the case against the dominance of this story. Arguing that the concept of financialization is ill-understood, Bernards shows how we risk glossing over the true nature of capitalism when focusing on the mythical powers of finance.

Rather than indulging in the harmful fantasy that confronting the financial elite will fix the economy, Bernards pro
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