Capital Claims: Power and Global Finance

ISBN-13: 9781032111193 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 296 str.

Opis

Capital Claims: Power and Global Finance analyzes how global financialized capitalism operates and reproduces itself, exploring the remarkable ability of the financial sector to maintain its dominance through even the most severe economic crises.

Spis treści

1. The Three Phases of Financial Power: Leverage, Infrastructure, and Enforcement  Part I: Leverage Power  2. Leveraging Financial Claims: Transatlantic Bank Struggles and the Power of US Finance  3. Countering Financial Claims: On the Political Economy of Definancialisation  4. Relational Claims: Offshore Dollar and Sovereign Debt  5. Claims to Sovereignty: MMT as a Challenge to Money’s Technical Imaginary  Part II: Infrastructural Power  6. The New Gatekeepers of Financial Claims: States, Passive Markets, and the Growing Power of Index Providers  7. The Benefits of Network Centrality: Central Counterparties, the Enforceability of Claims, and the Securing of Extra-Profits  8. Geoeconomic Infrastructures: Building Chinese-Russian Alternatives to SWIFT  Part III: Enforcement Power  9. Night of the Living Debt: Non-performing Loans and the Politics of Making an Asset Class in Europe  10. The Financialization of Investor-State Dispute Settlement  11. Firm Claims: Reinterpreting the Global Race for Foreign Direct Investment  12. Claiming the Wealth of a Nation: Creditor-Enforced Privatizations in Greece  Part IV: Conclusion  13. The Rise of Autonomous Financial Power