The text examines the activities of often highly controversial investment funds, namely private equity, hedge funds, and sovereign wealth funds, in US, UK Australia, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Italy, Poland, and Japan, exploring the importance of these funds and considering t…
"This book describes the importance of finance and real estate for the emergence of authoritarian regimes. Through an ethnographic study of the pseudo-oligarchs, failed European businessmen, frustrated managers, and unpaid workers that populate Macedonia's construction sector, F…
"This book explores the impact of finance on urban spaces as well as cities' role in the social constitution and dissemination of financial logics and techniques. It brings together literatures from different disciplinary areas to increase our understanding of financialization. …
"No economist has written more incisively and provocatively on financial crisis than Hyman Minsky. This book from monetary economist Daniel H. Neilson provides a systematic overview of Minsky's thought, covering his entire body of work, revealing how financial crises arise not a…
Wer schützt die Welt vor den Finanzkonzernen?
BlackRock, Vanguard und State Street - allein die drei größten Finanzkonzerne verwalten Vermögen im Wert von 15 Billionen US-Dollar. Mit Anteilen an fast allen großen Unternehmen und dem Kapital für politisches Lobbying über Partei- und Ländergrenzen hinweg haben sie eine bisher…
