Political Economy of Financialization in the United States: A Historical–Institutional Balance-Sheet Approach
About this eBook
This innovative historical-institutional approach, ranging from the micro level of households to the macro level of the federal government, reveals that the displacement of households by banks has been a long-term process. This gradual compounding of financialization is at odds with widely accepted views about financialization, contemporary banking theory, financial intermediation theory, and post-Keynesian and endogenous money approaches. The book returns to time-tested traditional principles of banking and taps unexpected affinities about market failures in transaction cost economics, financial intermediation theory, and core ideas in classic modern political and social economy about economic moralities and social reactions of self-defense against unfettered markets. This book provides an alternative explanation for the rise of finance and new ways to think about averting financialization and its devastating consequences.
This book marks a significant contribution to the literature on financialization, social economics, banking, and the American political economy.
About the author
Kurt Mettenheim taught at the FGV-EAESP in São Paulo, Brazil, the University of Oxford, the University of Pittsburgh, and Columbia University.
