...Manuela Bojadžijev This article takes as a starting point a tenants’ initiative pursued predominantly by migrants in inner-city Berlin, the capital of a country considered to have profited from Europe’s debt and financial crisis of 2007–8. The two-year-long protest can be read within the framework...

...Silvia Federici The article examines the development of the new “debt economy,” especially the expansion of individual debt, in its relation to the main props of the neoliberal agenda: the precarization of work, the dismantling of the “welfare state,” and the increasing financialization...

...Verónica Gago This article proposes expanding the concept of extractivism beyond the critique of the reprimarization of Latin American economies and their dependency on commodities. Thus it focuses on the modes of financial penetration of Argentina’s popular sectors during the past decade linked...

...Giulia Dal Maso The article examines the distinctive features of Chinese financialization. It argues that in China “mass financialization” was strategically led by a state effort to compensate for the social outcomes that resulted when the communist model of collective work units ( danwei...

...B. U. Ratchford Copyright © 1933 by Duke University Press 1933 THE FINANCIAL CRISIS IN NORTH CAROLINA B. U. RATCHFORD NORTH CAROLINA is today facing the most difficult and trying financial situation it has known for more than fifty years. After repeated and drastic attempts to keep the budget...

...Edward LiPuma; Benjamin Lee This essay uses the credit crisis as an example to illuminate what a social approach to the financial markets would look like. We sketch out a theoretical and thematic journey whose end is to make the social so visible that a better appreciation of the financial field...

... but as a site of vitality and possibility. The global financial crisis and ongoing recession, however, have been positioned as undoing these radical transformations in women’s labor by threatening a return of the social formations characteristic of Fordism. Yet in this essay I suggest that to understand...

...John Shelton Curtiss The Soviet Financial System: Its Development and Relations with the Western World . By Condoide Mikhail V. . Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University , 1951 . Pp. xiii , 224 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 Book Reviews 329...

...Noble E. Cunningham, Jr. Albert Gallatin: Jeffersonian Financier and Diplomat . By Walters Raymond Jr . New York : The Macmillan Company , 1957 . Pp. xii , 461 . $7.00 . Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 396 The South Atlantic Quarterly synthesis of the work...

...Gary Herrigel Edward LiPuma and Benjamin Lee emphasize performativity to a fault in their characterization of action within financial markets. Though valuable, their reproduction oriented approach misses financial actors' awareness and self-conscious manipulation of sociability in the destabilizing...

...Alexandre F. Mendes This article analyzes the strategies of “integrating” the favelas into the city in Rio de Janeiro through state enforcement and an expansion of financial measures. In a new arrangement of the public-private dichotomy, Pacifying Police Units (Unidade de Polícia Pacificadora; UPPs...

... into the process of endogenous financial hierarchization. The emergence of capitalist financial governance is conceptualized as a process whereby the state takes on bank-like properties and the capitalist state’s future-oriented institutional forms come to serve as constitutive aspects of economic value...

...Dick Bryan; Michael Rafferty; Chris Jefferis The process of financialization of accumulation brings to the fore the issue of risk and risk trading. This article explores the way finance and risk relate to capital accumulation and how risk might be integrated into Marxian value theory. It looks...

... processes of financialization involve an ever-tighter entanglement between the fortunes of high finance and the everyday life of consumer borrowing and indebtedness. This article focuses on the phenomenon of shadow money—money issued outside the traditional boundaries of the New Deal banking system...

...Fiona Allon The overexposed, overindebted neoliberal consumer has become one of the most representative figures of financial capitalism. But both the commonsense claim that all money is essentially debt and its converse, that all debt is now money that can beget more money, foreclose analytical...

... on the contractual assembly of a collateralized debt obligation contract as representative of a particular class of instruments whose financial and social value is being questioned. I suggest that the trial can be understood as a prolonged practice of deliberation and doubt that entails a profound clash...

... students, who face such barriers as inaccessibility to most types of financial aid and work-study programs and the inability to secure jobs. The essay describes how hundreds of students from all over California gathered at UCLA to demand equality in the educational system. The essay then elaborates on how...

...Heather Gautney Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is part of an ongoing series of pro-democracy protests throughout the United States against alarming trends in social inequality, high rates of home foreclosure and unemployment, and the excessive influence of corporate and financial interests on government...

... of exploitation. Mainstream macroeconomics represents the watershed changes in world capitalism in the 1970s as due to technical improvements in economic theory and policy, thereby obscuring the underlying political economy of those changes. Globalized financial capitalism eliminated upward wage pressures...

...Tommaso Fattori When the economic and financial storm broke, the Italian government asked the collectivity to come together to defend capital and the international financial powers by satisfying their thirst for privatization. The government plan was to sell off the country’s common patrimony...