Drawing from research across five countries, this book presents a comprehensive theoretical and empirical account of the social impact of financialisation.
Through case studies on housing, water, and health, Ben Fine traces the effects of financialisation on economic and social reproduction, alongside the corresponding material cultures of neoliberalism. Economic is understood as embedded within social reproduction, with neoliberalism, as the current stage of capitalism, fundamentally underpinned by, but not reducible to, the financialisation of everyday life. Considerable emphasis is placed upon the variegated outcomes attached to the neoliberalisation of social reproduction, as highlighted by the comparative study of economic and social provisioning across different countries and sectors.
Other books by Ben Fine
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In and against Development: From New to Newest Development Economics
by Ben Fine -
In and against Development: The World Bank behind the Looking Glass
by Ben Fine -
The Political Economy of South Africa’s Post-apartheid Transition: The Rejection of Alternatives to Neoliberalism
by Ben Fine -
From Value to Uneven Development
by John Weeks -
Cliometrics as Economics Imperialism: Across the Watershed
by Ben Fine