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"This analysis of financialization ultimately exposes weaknesses in the rentier thesis (made popular by Piketty), which assumes the inevitability of inequality as an outcome of slower economic growth in advanced societies. After demonstrating that the roots of such inequality lay in social structural arrangements of our own making, Prechel considers pre-conditions to change"-- Provided by publisher.

Title Normalized financial wrong doing : how re-regulating markets created risks and fostered inequality / Harland Prechel.
Publisher Stanford, California : Stanford University Press
Creation Date [2021]
Notes Includes bibliographical references and index.
Content The contemporary corporation and private property -- Historical transitions from liberalism to neoliberalism -- Transforming banks from market enablers to market participants -- Converging economic and political interests -- Creating risk, engaging in financial malfeasance, and crisis -- A "great crisis" in the FIRE sector -- The extent and causes of financial malfeasance -- Inequality in the twenty-first century -- A unified upper class, the fractured middle and working classes, and the potential for emancipatory social change.
Extent 1 online resource.
Language English
Copyright Date ©2021
National Library system number 997012334688305171
MARC RECORDS
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