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Best podcasts about financialisation

Latest podcast episodes about financialisation

Kopi Time podcast with Taimur Baig
Kop Time E141 - Ashish Gupta on India's Financial Markets

Kopi Time podcast with Taimur Baig

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 20, 2024 51:45 Transcription Available


All about India's financial markets with Ashish Gupta, CIO of Axis Mutual Fund, one of the largest and fastest growing asset management companies in India. Ashish digs into his multi-decade experience on covering Indian banks and nonbank financial companies to lay out a comprehensive picture of the current state of affairs. We go over the factors underlying the buoyancy of India's public and private capital markets, investor sentiment and behaviour on equities, RBI's regulatory role, and bank balance sheets and earnings outlook. Ashish provides excellent insights into the dynamic of successful exits by foreign investors laying the ground for the next round of inflows. Financialisation of India's economy has gone from strength to strength in recent decades; Ashish explains why this story has legs.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Searching for Mana with Lloyd Wahed
Lily Liu, President of Solana Foundation | How Blockchain Enables the Financialisation of Scarcity

Searching for Mana with Lloyd Wahed

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 28, 2024 71:56


In this episode of Searching for Mana, Lloyd Wahed meets with Lily Liu, President of the Solana Foundation, to unpack her journey from an early fascination with Bitcoin to leading one of blockchain's most groundbreaking ecosystems. With her expertise spanning traditional finance and digital assets, Lily provides a rare, balanced view of where blockchain is heading and how Solana is advancing the technology's global impact.Discover Solana's evolution from a fledgling network to a blockchain powerhouse, overcoming hurdles like the FTX crash while cultivating a vibrant community and ecosystem with over $5 billion in TVL.Lily's perspectives on self-custody, economic sovereignty, and user-first blockchain products are a must for anyone following the evolution of digital assets.Don't miss this episode for a glimpse into crypto's future, the challenges and promise of blockchain, and the unique strength of the Solana community. Solana website: https://solana.com/Lily Liu: https://www.linkedin.com/in/calilyliu/Follow Searching For Mana to stay tuned into our latest episodes.Website: https://manasearch.co.uk/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mana.search/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mana1

The SOIC Podcast
Top 7 Emerging Themes for 2025

The SOIC Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 26, 2024 54:18


Dear Tribe Members, Join us in this episode as we will cover 7 emerging themes for 2025. - Modern Day construction - Multiple players from Energy transmission - Financialisation of savings - Key to urban infra - Beneficiary of rising wealth - Travel industry - Consumption

Baby Giants Investing
#128 - The Finale

Baby Giants Investing

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 22, 2024 39:40


Join Andrew, Matt and Claude for the last episode of Baby Giants as they chat about markets and multiples, Fiducian Group, the financialisaton of the economy, Kinatico and keeping focused. Follow us on Twitter: @BabyGiantsPodCheck out Matt's substack: https://www.wholebraininvesting.com/p/the-problem-with-problem-solvingClaude's website: arichlife.com.auAndrew's investing network: strawman.com-----1:05 - Baby Giants is ending2:30 - Market rebound6:47 - Tangents - travel stories and ticks11:03 - Markets (part II)14:27 - Multiples16:18 - Fiducian Group (ASX: FID)19:29 - Generation Development Group (ASX: GDG)21:05 - Financialisation of the economy25:52 - Kinatico (ASX: KYP)30:22 - Promoters and raising capital32:49 - Keeping focused36:18 - How to stay in touch with us

BFM :: Ringgit and Sense
Buy Now Pay Later, A Blessing Or Trap?

BFM :: Ringgit and Sense

Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2024 17:49


Buy now pay later services have made it tempting to split a purchase into a few installments. But has it also given us a false sense of our purchasing power? Shereen Hazirah Hishamudin, Senior Research Associate, at Khazanah Research Institute joins us to discuss what are the consumer protection in place at the moment, who is more prone to the risks of falling into a cycle of high debt, whether it can serve as a safe borrowing channel. Khazanah research recently published a report titled “The Financialisation of Our Lives” with the second chapter focusing on the rise of buy now pay later.Image Credit: Shutterstock.com

The We Society
S5 Ep5: Protecting local councils with Andy Pike

The We Society

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2024 35:50


Professor Andy Pike has placed local authorities under his microscope for us, trying to figure out how to solve the crisis, as Sir Henry Daysh Chair of Regional Development Studies at Newcastle University. He's even written a book about the very topic called "Financialisation and Local Statecraft". When it was revealed in 2022 that Thurrock council in Essex faced a half-a-billion-pound black hole in its finances, it was assumed it was something that other local authorities couldn't repeat.  But since then, five other local authorities, including Nottingham, Birmingham, and Croydon, have fallen like dominoes, declaring bankruptcies and one in five local authorities in England is now projected to be insolvent by next year. Something is clearly going very wrong. And it's not just bin collections at stake but adult and child social care, schooling, libraries—the list goes on. Speak to anyone working in frontline council services, and they will tell you that any further cuts will decimate how we look after society's most vulnerable.  Season 5 of the We Society Podcast from the Academy of Social Sciences tackles the big questions through a social science lens. Throughout this series, you'll be hearing some of the best ideas to shape the way we live. Hosted by journalist and Academy President Will Hutton, we interview some of Britain's top social scientists and public figures from across the globe to explore their evidence-led solutions to society's most pressing problems. Don't want to miss an episode? Follow the We Society on your favourite podcast platform and you can email us on wesociety@acss.org.uk and tell us who we should be speaking to or follow us on X https://twitter.com/AcadSocSciences Find out more about the Academy of Social Sciences here: https://AcSS.org.uk

Rupture Radio
Rupture Reading: The deepening housing crisis - financialisation and accumulation

Rupture Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2024 11:24


Hey Everyone! Today we have a reading of an old article from 2021 by Des Hennelly on the state of housing in Ireland and how we got here. As important now as it was almost 3 years ago when it was first written. Delving into the development of the housing market since the foundation of the state Des notes the impact neoliberalism and capitalism have had and what needs to happen if we are to tackle the housing crisis This article first appeared in Rupture Issue 4, you can read the article online here ---- Rupture Radio is a podcast looking at news, politics and culture from a socialist perspective. It is produced by members of the RISE network within People before Profit, and is linked to Rupture - Ireland's Eco-Socialist Quarterly. Check out the magazine at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠rupture.ie ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Anyone who would like to support the podcast can do so on our Patreon. Sign up today at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/ruptureradio⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Any comments or queries please send them to LeftInsidePod@gmail.com or get in touch on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ruptureradio/message

Coffee and Investing with Saurabh Mukherjea
Financialisation of Savings ft. Pramod Gubbi

Coffee and Investing with Saurabh Mukherjea

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2024 33:03


Saurabh invites his colleague Pramod Gubbi for a captivating discussion exploring the concept called Financialisation of Savings, as they give you a primer on how to move away from investments in the traditional asset classes and head towards financial assets. The stocks described in the podcast form a part of our Marcellus' portfolio. So, we as Marcellus, our clients and our immediate relatives have interest and stakes in the described stocks. The described stocks are for illustration and education purpose only and not recommendatory.

Fundação (FFMS) - [IN] Pertinente
EP 127 | SOCIEDADE Cidades: sítio para morar, precisa-se

Fundação (FFMS) - [IN] Pertinente

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 7, 2023 50:23


Assistimos com preocupação à falta de casas, a preços e condições acessíveis para viver nas grandes cidades do nosso país. A tão famosa crise da habitação é tema recorrente nas notícias. Contudo, será que este é um problema inteiramente novo? Ou será que apenas mudam as causas para um problema que não é novo?O Gonçalo Antunes diz-nos que sim. E não fica por aí: em conversa com a Ana Markl, identifica os factos que estão na base deste problema (que realmente não é novo) do acesso à habitação. Explica como viviam as famílias em tempos não assim tão distantes e explica que ‘a história das cidades também se faz destas dificuldades do acesso à habitação'. Porém, a Ana Markl vai querer conhecer as razões actuais, as conhecidas e as menos faladas; vai questionar sobre se poderemos ter esperança num acesso mais fácil a ter casa, e fará ainda uma pergunta sacramental: que lições deveremos retirar para o futuro? REFERÊNCIAS E LINKS ÚTEISLeituras: Antunes, G. (2018). Políticas de habitação - 200 anos. Lisboa: Editora Caleidoscópio. Antunes, G. (2021a). Direitos humanos e habitação - evolução do direito à habitação em Portugal. Lisboa: Editora Caleidoscópio.Antunes, G. & Seixas, J. (2022). Impactos da pandemia na evolução do acesso à habitação na Área Metropolitana de Lisboa. CIDADES, Comunidades e Territórios, 45, pp. 55-79. Antunes, G. & Ferreira, J. (2021). Short-term rentals: how much is too much - spatial patterns in Portugal and Lisbon. Tourism and Hospitality Management, 27, 3, 581‒603. Aalbers, M.B. (2016). The Financialisation of Housing: a Political Economy Approach. Londres: Routledge. Becker, E. (2013). Overbooked: The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism. Nova Iorque: Simon & Schuster. Brenner, N., Marcuse, P. & Mayer, M (eds.). (2012). Cities for People, Not for Profit. Critical Urban Theory and the Right to the City. Londres: Routledge. Lees, L. & Phillips, M. (2018). Handbook of Gentrification Studies. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.Seixas, J. (2021). Lisboa em metamorfose. Lisboa: Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos.Davis, M. (2005). Planet of slums. Nova Iorque: Verso Books.Documentário: Do Bairro, Diogo Varela Silva, 2021 BIOSANA MARKLAna Markl nasceu em Lisboa, em 1979, com uma total inaptidão para tomar decisões, pelo que se foi deixando levar pelas letras; licenciou-se em Línguas e Literaturas Modernas porque gostava de ler e escrever, mas acabou por se formar em Jornalismo pelo CENJOR. Começou por trabalhar no jornal Blitz para pôr a render a sua melomania, mas extravasou a música e acabou por escrever sobre cultura e sociedade para publicações tão díspares como a Time Out, o Expresso ou mesmo a Playboy. Manteve o pé na imprensa, mas um dia atreveu-se a fazer televisão. Ajudou a fundar o Canal Q em 2010, onde foi guionista e apresentadora. Finalmente trocou a televisão pela rádio, um velho amor que ainda não consumara. Trabalha desde 2015 na Antena 3 como locutora e autora.GONÇALO ANTUNESGeógrafo, doutorado em Geografia e Planeamento Territorial pela Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas (NOVA FCSH) da Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Professor universitário na NOVA FCSH, coordenador do Departamento de Geografia e Planeamento Regional e investigador integrado no Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais (CICS.NOVA).  É especialista em políticas de habitação, dinâmicas do mercado imobiliário, políticas públicas urbanas, Geografia urbana, planeamento e ordenamento do território e de forma lata em estudos urbanos. Dentro destas temáticas tem várias publicações científicas, é coordenador de projetos científicos e  exposições na qualidade de curador, entre outras atividades de disseminação do conhecimento.

1a LAGE - Der Immobilienpodcast
Gibt es zu viele Finanzinvestoren im Wohnungsmarkt?

1a LAGE - Der Immobilienpodcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2023 30:53


Gibt es zu viele Finanzinvestoren im Wohnungsmarkt? Gemeinsam mit der Vision Group präsentieren wir Euch die 1aLAGE - Der Immobilienpodcast   Rosa Luxemburg lässt grüßen, wir sprechen heute über „Financialisation“ * Financialisation? Was ist das und was ist der Anlass?   * Vielleicht vorab zur Erklärung: welche Entwicklungen sind gemeint mit „Financialisation“?   * Bei der üblichen Definition des Begriffs, erkenne ich hier kein großes Problem. Was wird kritisiert?  * Viele der kritisierten Konzerne investieren in den Markt, bauen neue Wohnungen oder sanieren. Ist das nicht gesellschaftlich gewünscht?   * Was ist die politische Schlussfolgerung? * Und: Ist die Financialisation damit schon zu Ende? Oder erwartest Du eine Rückkehr der Investoren? Die Antworten auf all diese Fragen und einige mehr findet ihr in dieser Episode der 1aLAGE und nun wünschen wir spannende Insights und gute Unterhaltung - Viel Spaß! ****** Du informierst dich gerne, wie hier, über Immobilien, willst aber am liebsten rentabel, ohne Aufwand und mit All-Inclusive-Service in Kapitalanlageimmobilien investieren? Nachhaltige Immobilien in Top-Lagen findest du bei der Vision Group, unserem Partner für diese Folge. Informiere dich auf www.vision.de/1alage. Wohnen braucht Vision ******* Wenn Du eine Frage hast, dann schreib mir gerne eine E-Mail an hw@haukewagner.de Wenn Du mir ein Projekt verkaufen oder vermieten willst, dann ruf mich bitte an unter 01712627868 oder schreibe mir eine E-Mail an hw@kontriva.com - Vielen herzlichen Dank und bis gleich! Außerdem findest du uns auf Twitter unter @mvoigtlaender und @haukewagner Oder auf Instagram unter 1alage_podcast

The Hive Podcast
113. On The Perils Of Decarbonisation, Digitisation & Financialisation / Camila Moreno

The Hive Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2023 65:16


In today's conversation, I speak with Camila Moreno, an environmental researcher, author and activist, who has worked extensively on land reform, deforestation, GMOs, agribusiness, and biodiversity issues. A leading climate-policy expert and critical voice on neoliberal climate policies and “green capitalism”, Camila's main area of study has been the interface between reasoning on climate change and the greening of capitalism. A researcher at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, Camila has been following the climate negotiations since 2008, and in 2016 she authored a book titled Carbon Metrics and the New Colonial (2016), exploring these themes and more. The former coordinator of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, in the Brazil office, Camila has been accompanying the United Nation's Convention on Biological Diversity since 2006, and the Climate Convention since 2008. She is a working group member of Political Ecology of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences and the International Council of Red for a Latin America Transgenic Free (RALLT), and she served with the organizations Terra de Direitos (Land's Rights) and Amigos da Terra (Earth's Friends) as a researcher and activist. Recorded on 29th April 2023.

Regulatory Ramblings
The Financialisation Of Everything: Anything that Can be Digitised Can be Financialised

Regulatory Ramblings

Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2023 79:24


The “Finansialization of Everything” is a term few have heard of. Yet, personalised financial technology – like cryptocurrencies and blockchain – has the power to alter how people regularly interact. Our guest, Emmanuel Daniel, highlights in his book how emerging FinTech and never-before-seen transactions are fundamentally changing the roles of institutions, markets, and the commanding heights of the world economy. His insights provide fintech players with an out-of-box perspective of how they will bring about disruption and innovation.He talks to Regulatory Ramblings host Ajay Shamdasani about: the weaponisation of money; the next financial crisis and the ensuing global economic order; the nature of decentralised finance (DeFi), the lie of financial inclusion, and why he believes central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are doomed to fail.Emmanuel is the founder of The Asian Banker (TAB) and his next book is tentatively titled "The Winning Civilization". It follows the theme of financially driven changes covered in his previous work, "The Great Transition", which was released last year. Much of his writing is based on his three decades of experience founding and running TAB Global as a media, research, and consulting house. Emmanuel has extensive contact with leaders in banking and finance around the world. He won the Citibank Excellence in Business Journalism for Asia in 1999 for his work on the Internet in banking.Useful links in this episode:Emmanuel Daniel's website with book and other links - https://www.emmanueldaniel.com/Multi-CBDC mBridge by BIS Innovation Hub's Bénédicte Nolens - podcast.hkufintech.com Stablecoins: Risks, Potential and Regulation - SSRN Link The Financialization of Crypto: Lessons from FTX and the Crypto Winter of 2022-2023 - SSRN Link Financial Data Governance: The Datafication of Finance, the Rise of Open Banking and the End of the Data Centralization Paradigm - SSRN Link HKU FinTech is the leading fintech research and education in Asia. Learn more at www.hkufintech.com.

Onyx and the World of Oil Derivatives
The Financialisation of Oil | A Reality Check | S5 E4

Onyx and the World of Oil Derivatives

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2023 47:32


In this episode Greg Newman and the Onyx Research team discuss Chinese fuel demand, weak refinery margins, and the natural gas market. Greg Newmanhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/oilderivatives/Ehsan Massahhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/oilanalyst/Vincent Wu:https://www.linkedin.com/in/vincent-wu-099816125/Audrey Byrne:https://www.linkedin.com/in/audrey-byrne-a32009183/

Progressing Planning
Using urban theory to understand land-financialisation

Progressing Planning

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 9, 2022 22:35


In this episode we are joined by Dr. Callum Ward, LSE fellow in Urban Planning and Geography. In his research, Callum uses urban political theory to help better understand contemporary economic and political processes that affect cities and citizens. In the podcast, Callum discusses his recently published article on Antwerp's planning policy in a context of neoliberal urban governance and aggressive land-financialisation.

WTFinance
How to Invest Like a Billionaire with David Rubenstein

WTFinance

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 6, 2022 19:16


Interview recorded - 1st of September, 2022On todays episode of the WTFinance podcast I had the pleasure of speaking the Billionaire David Rubenstein, Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of The Carlyle Group, one of the world's largest and most successful private investment firms, host of The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations and author of the upcoming book “How to Invest: Masters on the Craft” releasing in a few weeks on the 13th of September.Buy the book here - https://amzn.to/3B8fFGjDuring our interview we talking about David's career, important traits/skills of investing experts, the importance of living to fight another day and exciting asset classes to watch out for. I hope you enjoy!0:00 - Introduction1:17 - Why did it take so long to write an investing book?2:10 - Why mainly US Investors?2:42 - What motivates David to continue to interview people?3:58 - Importance of sharing Investment knowledge4:50 - Cost of capital creating opportunities6:00 - Important traits/skills of investing experts?7:30 - Targeting new, exciting areas of investing for opportunities8:15 - The importance of consistency in investing8:55 - Don't worry about missing out on opportunities9:49 - Live to fight another day10:07 - What attracts people to alternative investments?11:11 - Success of alternative businesses11:35 - Increase in longer term investing 12:39 - avoiding fees13:12 - Any new asset class that stands out to David?14:00 - Financialisation of asset classes15:00 - Losing money on investment speculating 15:46 - Anyone who left a last impression on David?16:47 - Focus on ESG now?17:53 - One message from our interview/book?David M. Rubenstein is Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of The Carlyle Group, one of the world's largest and most successful private investment firms. Established in 1987, Carlyle now manages $325 billion from 26 offices around the world.Mr. Rubenstein has served as Chairman of the Boards of Duke University and the Smithsonian Institution, and Co-Chairman of the Board of the Brookings Institution.Mr. Rubenstein is the host of The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations on Bloomberg TV and PBS and Bloomberg Wealth with David Rubenstein on Bloomberg TV; and the author of The American Story: Conversations with Master Historians, a book published by Simon & Schuster in October 2019, How to Lead: Wisdom from the World's Greatest CEOs, Founders, and Game Changers, a book published by Simon & Schuster in September 2020, and The American Experiment: Dialogues on a Dream, a book published by Simon & Schuster in September 2021.From 1973–1975, Mr. Rubenstein practiced law in New York with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. From 1975–1976, he served as Chief Counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments. From 1977–1981, during the Carter Administration, Mr. Rubenstein was Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy. After his White House service and before co-founding Carlyle, Mr. Rubenstein practiced law in Washington with Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge (now Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman).David Rubenstein - Website - https://www.davidrubenstein.com/index.htmlTwitter - https://twitter.com/DM_RubensteinWTFinance -Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wtfinancee/Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/67rpmjG92PNBW0doLyPvfnTikTok - https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMeUjj9xV/iTunes - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wtfinance/id1554934665?uo=4Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthony-fatseas-761066103/Twitter - https://twitter.com/AnthonyFatseas

My not so Profound thoughts
Resilient India: Earnings during the tough times

My not so Profound thoughts

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2022 11:25


In this episode I have explained the impact of Inflation, China + 1 and Financialisation of the Indian economy and how do we earn from the current scenario of crisis that is taking place in the world and which companies to invest iin

Reboot Republic Podcast
212. Stopping the Investor Fund Takeover & Housing Financialisation with Leilani Farha

Reboot Republic Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 8, 2022 51:57


In this Reboot Republic Rory talks to Leilani Farha, former UN Rapporteur on the Right to Housing, and director of the Shift, the new global movement for the right to housing. Leilani and Rory discuss a new direction for housing – where housing is understood and implemented as a human right to address the global housing crisis. In particular, they discuss the financialization of housing – where governments have brought investor funds – the vulture and vampire funds – into their housing markets, only to have them take over housing stock, and increasing rents, turning a Generation into their tenants, locking them into unaffordable rents and locking them out of home ownership. Leilani introduces the new Shift Directives which she and her organization have recently developed with input from global experts, as a proposal for Governments to tackle the financialisation of housing and tame the investor-fund takeover of housing. You can check out The Shift Directives here: www.maketheshift.org Join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack

London Review Bookshop Podcasts
Speculative Communities: Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Grace Blakely, James Bridle and Will Davies

London Review Bookshop Podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2022 68:42


Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Professor of Sociology at University College London, argues in Speculative Communities (Chicago) that speculation is no longer confined to the sphere of finance, but has, through virtual marketplaces, new social media and dating apps, become an integral part of the most intimate realms of our lives. Komporozos-Athanasiou will be in conversation with economist Grace Blakeley, author of Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation, James Bridle, author of New Dark Age, and Will Davies, Reader in Political Economy at Goldsmiths and author of Nervous States. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Making a house a home
In search of tools that tame financialisation

Making a house a home

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2022 32:26


Where did we leave the conversation last time? After our 12 #Housing2030 podcast episodes about affordable housing that is mindful of climate sustainability, responsible land policy, better governance and finance were listened about 2,400 times, we launched the long-awaited “#Housing2030: Effective policies for affordable housing in the UNECE region”. The study that was led by Housing Europe, UNECE, and UN-Habitat draws on the experience of over 100 researchers, policymakers and housing providers from across the UNECE region and beyond, to define useful approaches, outline their advantages and disadvantages, and illustrate how smart affordable housing solutions can be applied locally. A compilation of over 160 tried and tested practices were in the hands of UNECE Housing Ministers on 6th October 2021 in the UN Headquarters in Geneva and just a month later, the publication made it to COP26 in Glasgow. However, the work is far from being done. The #Housing2030 report set just the beginning of very big questions that we felt obliged to come back to. So, we are embarking on a real journey to address the elephant in the room when it comes to housing affordability – the financialisation of housing and what are the tools that could tame it. Why are we choosing exactly this topic? The facts speak for themselves. Home ownership in many countries is declining and so is social housing. More are being forced to rent. Home prices and rent have risen dramatically throughout the pandemic and the IMF cautions that private investors are increasingly active in the real estate market. This podcast is a joint effort with the UNECE and UN Habitat, we are also grateful for the support from Irish Research Council and Irish Council for Social Housing who is a member of Housing Europe. I am Diana Yordanova, and in this new season of our #Housing2030 podcasts, I would like to do things a bit more differently. I am welcoming back two extremely knowledgeable researchers, the lead writer of the #Housing2030 report, Dr Julie Lawson who is an international researcher in housing systems at RMIT University Australia and Dr Michelle Norris, Professor of Social Policy at University College Dublin, who played a key role in the Housing2030 report, especially chapters on finance and governance. This time, they will be back-to-back with me addressing questions to influential decision makers about how can housing be looked not as a commodity but as a human right. We must build more effective critical capacities to address the harmful causes of financialisaton. This is why, we will do our best to enhance knowledge about the policy design, implementation outcomes and how different financial flows and housing outcomes can be achieved. Tune in for this new season of #Housing2030 podcasts.

Tech Won't Save Us
Can Higher Interest Rates Tame Big Tech And Inflation? w/ Grace Blakeley

Tech Won't Save Us

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2022 58:58


Paris Marx is joined by Grace Blakeley to discuss how low interest rates and quantitative easing fueled the tech economy's post-recession growth, why raising them won't fix the problems that's created, and whether higher interest rates are the solution to rising inflation.Grace Blakeley is a staff writer at Tribune Magazine and host of A World to Win. She's also the author of Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation and The Corona Crash: How the Pandemic Will Change Capitalism. Follow Grace on Twitter at @graceblakeley.Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, support the show on Patreon, and sign up for the weekly newsletter.Find out more about Harbinger Media Network at harbingermedianetwork.com.Also mentioned in this episode:Grace wrote about how interest rate hikes are used against workers, what we should learn from the Gamestop short squeeze, and how the pandemic has produced closer links between the state and major corporations.Benjamin Braun and Adrienne Buller explained the concept of asset manager capitalism.In the face of rising inflation, NFT values are down 48% since November.High energy prices tend to drive inflation, and Russia and Ukraine are major wheat exporters.In the UK, wages are falling at the fastest rate since 2014. In the US, wages are falling when accounting for inflation, after decades of wage stagnation.Support the show (https://patreon.com/techwontsaveus)

The Nomiki Show
Femme Friday! It's All About Workers: Inflation & Healthcare | What Really Matters As World Burns? 2-11-22

The Nomiki Show

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2022 74:54


http://www.patreon.com/thenomikishow » We need your help to keep providing free videos! Make sure to click Like & Subscribe! And we encourage you to join us on Patreon as a Patron for as low as $5/month! Grace Blakeley is a staff writer for Tribune. She is the author of Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation, and has by lines Jacobin including the pieces we'll discuss today!» Raising Interest Rates Is About Screwing Workers: https://jacobinmag.com/2022/02/thatcher-volcker-1970s-stagflation-class-prices-wages» https://twitter.com/graceblakeley» https://graceblakeley.co.uk/Indigo Olivier is a journalist who has written pieces for The Guardian, The Nation, Jacobin, The Conversationalist, and In These Times where today's story can be found!» A Landmark Bill Would Outlaw Bosses Cutting off Healthcare to Striking Workers: https://inthesetimes.com/article/healthcare-congress-labor-unions-strike» https://twitter.com/IndigoOlivierFor our panel, Jamie Peck, Host of The Antifada & the Everybody Loves Communism podcast, discusses populism, both genuine and facade, & where are focus should be (strategy) compared to where it is (Rogan and other controversies).» https://fans.fm/everybodylovescommunism» https://twitter.com/anti_fada» https://twitter.com/elcpod» https://twitter.com/jamie_elizabethCheck out today's sponsor: Sunset Lake CBD is a majority employee owned farm in Vermont producing 100% pesticide free CBD products. Great company, great product and fans of the show! Use promo code NOMI for 20% off your entire order at https://sunsetlakecbd.comNomiki is LIVE » Wed & Fri: 8p ET / 5p PT TNS swag » http://www.TheNomikiShow.comFind Nomiki on:Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/NomikiKonst » http://www.twitter.com/TheNomikiShow IG: https://www.instagram.com/thenomikishow» https://www.instagram.com/nomikikonstYouTube: https://www.youtube.com//TheNomikiShowFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/nomikikonstMusic Credits: Ohayo by Smith The Mister https://smiththemister.bandcamp.com Smith The Mister https://bit.ly/Smith-The-Mister-YT Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/_ohayo Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/bzCw4RyFqHo Mi-Lo by Smith The Mister https://smiththemister.bandcamp.com Smith The Mister https://bit.ly/Smith-The-Mister-YT Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/mi-lo Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/--4tHbTT97g

Business Standard Podcast
Avendus Capital's Vaibhav Sanghavi on Budget expectations

Business Standard Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2022 5:29


Q1: It has been a rollercoaster ride for the markets over the past few sessions. Are they nervous ahead of the Budget presentation on February 1 or is to more to do with global factors? Ans: >Market nervousness more to do with global factors, especially the US Fed policy >Street now expects more hikes in 2022 than envisaged in 2021 >Lot to look forward to in the Union Budget     Q2: So, what are the markets expecting from the budget this time around? >More to do with continuation of existing policies, especially ease of doing business >Continued rationalisation of income-tax and taxes on fuel >Emphasis on capex programs, spending, rural push >Focus on COP and climate change     Q3: How much fiscal room does the government have to do all this? >Robust tax collections to help spending push >Fiscal expenditure should not be inflationary >Fiscal deficit should not be an issue Q4: Given that the retail investors have been a big part of the market rally, what can they expect? Ans: >Most of the things are in place to grow their pool >Hope for continuation of existing policies >Financialisation of savings will continue     Q5: And how should one position in the markets ahead of the D-day? Ans: >US Fed policy outcome is important and will impact sentiment >Budget an important event; continuity in existing policies will be appreciated by the markets >US Fed outcome can trigger volatility and correction >Expect the second half of 2022 to be good for emerging markets, including India Watch video

Business Standard Podcast
Evergrande crisis can be catalyst for market correction: Nilesh Shah

Business Standard Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 24, 2021 5:05


It has been a topsy-turvy week for the global equity markets, having to deal with the Evergrande crisis in China. Will this event prove to be a catalyst triggering a market correction? Or is the worst over? In this exclusive interview with Puneet Wadhwa, Kotak Mahindra AMC Managing Director Nilesh Shah answers all these questions. Edited excerpts: Concerns around China's Evergrande crisis over now? Evergrande more of a China problem than a global one It's China's ‘Lehman Brothers moment' No global markets contagion, only a temporary setback Some impact: Real estate slowdown, metal stocks to be hit Will Evergrande ghost haunt global financial markets again? Difficult to predict market sentiment Events like Evergrande can act as a catalyst for market correction Where will Nifty be after 6 months – 15,000 or 20,000? Indian markets are fairly valued Corporate results good, Covid cases dropping, ample money flowing Evergrande crisis may force investors to look at India as alternative to China Biggest risk to markets: surplus liquidity, inflation or retail investor frenzy? None of these are risks People sceptical about markets, but still want to invest Indian market's fundamentals should be a worry We have a good opportunity to narrow economic gap with China If PLI scheme delivers, we may well become manufacturer to the world Investors looking for growth will then come to India What about the opportunity the US-China trade war gave? China is competitive; exporting more now than before pandemic India needs to leverage its strengths sector by sector US Fed has indicated a taper. Can global equity markets also take a breather? Excessive liquidity has created excessive valuation in asset classes like cryptos No such excess in the listed company/stock universe First impact of liquidity taper will be on NFT market, cryptos, unlisted equities The listed/stock market universe will be last to be impacted Should investors look at debt segment instead of equities? Debt was an option in March 2020 as well Investors must follow asset allocation What should be proportion for allocation to each asset class? Depends on life goals and risk profile Investment opportunities in the current market? Looking at an equal allocation between large, mid-and small-caps Some themes that will run long – Financialisation of savings: Beneficial for banks, NBFCs, AMCs, insurers, fintechs Export-oriented plays: Pharma, IT Industrial & engineering: Capex-driven play for the next 3-5 years

New Money Review podcast
Fintech and the great rupture

New Money Review podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2021 34:30


The combination of finance and technology is driving us towards the biggest change in human history in 500 years, says Viktor Shvets, my guest on this week's podcast.Shvets, a Hong Kong-based investment banker with Macquarie and a widely followed markets analyst, specialises in the intersection between finance, technology, politics and history. Viktor's background—he grew up in the former USSR before moving to Australia in his early 20s—has given him a unique perspective into the great geopolitical shifts we're living through.He's recently turned that perspective into a new book, “The Great Rupture”, a study of the profound impact of technology and financialisation on our collective future.I found the book erudite, thought-provoking, convincing and at times a little scary.Here are some excerpts from the podcast discussion:The past is no longer a guide to the future“The recipe for success over the last 500 years is now changing very rapidly.”Economic success, personal and political freedom“Is it possible to be wealthy, prosperous and even innovative even though you don't enjoy the same degree of freedom? The lessons of the last five centuries are that without freedom you can't have those things.”The industrial age and the information age“There are fundamental differences between the two. In the industrial age, capital was scarce, most activities were highly capital-intensive and labour was a primary driver of productivity. That's why you needed literacy and a skilled workforce.”“In the information age, we are drowning in capital and we have 5-10 times more than we require. Most activities these days are not that capital-intensive. The capacity constraints are much more fluid. And labour is losing marginal pricing power.”Capitalism is over“What we have right now is not capitalism. It's just a question of how we define it and what are the rules for the new world.”Financialisation is driving us towards a black hole “We are rushing towards a black hole. On the other side, a different world lies. The two forces pushing us there are financialisation and the information age.”“Any idea gets very easily funded. The low cost of capital is like pouring kerosene on the bonfire of the information age. It's accelerating the progress of technology.”Central bank money creation is no longer inflationary“The more you grow the money supply faster than nominal GDP, the more you create disinflation rather than inflation. Money is getting stuck in the cloud of finance, rather than reaching the ground where people live.”The end of the corporation“In the future, the idea of having a long-living corporation, transacting in its own name, will seem ridiculous.”Freedom may be optional“The mixture of technology and financialisation could lead us into a world where freedom becomes optional.”“Baby boomers' obsession with freedom, choice and efficiency led to many bad outcomes, from environmental degradation to income and wealth inequality. Going forward, we will have less freedom. An emphasis on fairness and equality will be far more prevalent.”Curtains for Facebook, Amazon and Netflix?“The large digital consumer platforms are sunsetting. They're suffering from diseconomies of scale and they are going to be attacked from a political, regulatory and societal level, as well as by start-ups.”

The FS Club Podcast
The Corona Crash: How The Pandemic Will Change Capitalism

The FS Club Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2021 45:56


Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3ESjjmx In this webinar, Grace Blakeley, leading economics commentator and author of The Corona Crash, theorises about the epoch-making changes that the coronavirus brings in its wake. We are living through a unique moment in history. The pandemic has caused the deepest global recession since the Second World War. Meanwhile the human cost is reflected in a still-rising death toll, as many states find themselves unable—and some unwilling—to grapple with the effects of the virus. Whatever happens, we can never go back to business as usual. This crisis will tip us into a new era of monopoly capitalism, argues Blakeley, as the corporate economy collapses into the arms of the state, and the tech giants grow to unprecedented proportions. We need a radical response. The recovery could see the transformation of our political, economic, and social systems based on the principles of the Green New Deal. If not, the alternatives, as Blakeley warns, may be even worse than we feared. Speaker: Grace Blakeley is the author of The Corona Crash: How the Pandemic Will Change Capitalism. She is a staff writer at Tribune magazine, host of the 'A World to Win' podcast and author of 'Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation'. Grace previously worked as a research fellow for the Institute for Public Policy Research and as the New Statesman's economic commentator. She appears regularly in the media as a political and economic commentator, including appearances on Question Time, BBC This Week, and BBC Breakfast.

Za Humny podcast
35 - Casino Royale aneb kde se berou peníze

Za Humny podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 6, 2021 46:41


Peníze hýbou světem, ale kdo hýbe penězi? A v čem leží jejich skutečný význam pro dnešní svět? Po krizových 70. letech nastala v Americe revoluční změna, která postupně ovládla celou globální ekonomiku. Skončila éra nudného bankovnictví a započala se éra výsostně ne-nudná, plná rizik, ztrát, zisků, dluhů a algoritmů. Západ přehodil výhybku, započal se růst významu finančního sektoru a my všichni jsme se vykročili cestou financializace. Co jsou stínové banky? Kde podle investorského veterána Warrena Buffetta “tiká bomba”? A komu dnes banky nejvíc půjčují? Podíváme se na Wall Street i do londýnské City, propojíme financializaci s globalizací i nerovnostmi a vysvětlíme, jak ve skutečnosti vypadá “tištění” nových peněz. Za konzultace děkujeme obvyklým konzultantům, za pomoc s úpravou zvuku z iPhonu Lukáši Turzovi. Zdroje: Dokument Oeconomia: http://oeconomia-film.de Podcast o knize Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation: https://podcasts.apple.com/cz/podcast/tyskysour/id1510920958?i=1000473124401 Podcast s Ranou Faroohar a Joshuou Ryan-Collinsem: https://podcasts.apple.com/cz/podcast/this-is-capitalism/id1437132178?i=1000420329907 Adam Tooze o finančním sektoru: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36bfqHZtSiU&t=447s John Kay k financializaci: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkhxMdilxJE Greta Krippner k financializaci a globalizaci: https://www.depfe.unam.mx/actividades/10/financiarizacion/i-7-KrippnerGreta.pdf Dani Rodrik: The Globalization Paradox Dluh amerických domácností: https://www.stlouisfed.org/~/media/files/pdfs/hfs/assets/2017/moritz_schularick_the_great_american_debt_boom.pdf?la=en Hedging aerolinií: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/081415/4-ways-airlines-hedge-against-oil.asp O hedge fondech: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/a-brief-history-of-the-hedge-fund Paul Volcker a užitečné bankomaty: https://nypost.com/2009/12/13/the-only-thing-useful-banks-have-invented-in-20-years-is-the-atm/ Střet zájmů bank: https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2017/08/16/the-volcker-rule-and-potential-conflicts-of-interests-in-banks/ Glass-Steagall: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/glass_steagall_act.asp HFT a možná nestabilita: https://www.iosco.org/library/pubdocs/pdf/IOSCOPD354.pdf Zvuky: Vlak: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oJAVJPX0YY Reagan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCedOQJ0ZEA Adam Tooze a systemic juice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36bfqHZtSiU&t=447s Trump: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_aLESDql1U Warren Buffett v Kongresu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70LGVnr4mYU Rozmohl se nám tu nešvar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOIfwgIGA5Q Poník: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdGnLg7-AoE Ka-ching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBYJdZlpBT4 Django Unchained: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdOykEJSXIg John Kay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkhxMdilxJE Goldmans Sachs v Kongresu: https://www.c-span.org/video/?293196-2/investment-banks-financial-crisis-executives AB poezie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3Cp-zksFDo

The David Pakman Show
5/27/21: What's Happening to Public Option, Vaccines, Trump?

The David Pakman Show

Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2021 65:55


--On the Show: --Grace Blakeley, economics commentator at The New Statesman and author of "Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation," joins David to discuss the long term economic effects of the pandemic. Get the book: https://amzn.to/3uqQ059 --Donald Trump gives an absolutely absurd interview to radical right wing network Newsmax, telling all sorts of lies and appearing to misunderstand everything about how the world works --Notable discussions from the David Pakman Show subreddit, including about a viewer with Trumpist parents, mask policy, and more --Is Joe Biden abandoning the public option that he campaigned on? --CNN reporter Kyung Lah confronts Karen Fann, the Republican Arizona State Senate President who is behind the so-called audit of the 2020 election in Arizona --Fox News guest and former NYPD detective Pat Brosnan appears to blame COVID vaccination for recent shootings --Vaccinated voicemail caller has people in her life who believe that people vaccinated against COVID-19 are "shedding" the vaccine into the environment around them --On the Bonus Show: WI Republicans quickly end Medicaid expansion, MyPillow's Mike Lindell turned away from Republican event, Jeff Bezos might own Trump's Apprentice tapes, much more...

Monetary Revolution
Chapter 5 - Financialisation, Globalisation, and Industralisation

Monetary Revolution

Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2021 66:38


In our sixth chapter, we look at the nature of how western economies - through losing their industrial economies, have gone through a period of globalisation which has led to western economies becoming financialisaed. We look at part of the reasons for this, and look at how the globalisation since the 1980s might be beginning to change. Twitter: @MonetaryRevolu3 My work will always be free, but if you want to help out feel free to leave something small in various ways. BTC: bc1q6gdfysyrt6t0dfs42uy8w75twmr47qr9u39pwxcwscgfty8z474s2k59zk XMR: 41rWHcKVyn3BauSBimY5oSCVc8x6NPYPxQM2WF5DYEq5BpZVwpz8sT94H54nETMAP2JF384qvaG63UsTjTwzyA6z2K2E2VH Or if you want, purchase an NFT of my photography. Who knows, it might be worth something if you hold it for a while: https://opensea.io/Monetary-Revolution

Making a house a home
The ABC of housing market financialisation and what can we do to fix it

Making a house a home

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2021 31:31


Try discussing housing affordability without mentioning the financialisation of real estate property. This key concept has affected the general housing conditions in many countries - big funds buying tens of thousands of homes, expanding mortgage market that drives up prices, constantly increasing rents, gentrification and pricing people out. The financialisation of housing can easily sound complex, so we have invited someone who can explain it even to a grandma. You are with ‘Making a house a home’ - the podcast of the European federation of public, cooperative and social housing providers, Housing Europe. This is the 11th podcast of Housing 2030, the joint initiative of UNECE, UN-Habitat and Housing Europe that aims at bringing the best out of land and environmental policy, governance and finance to deliver housing affordability. I am Diana Yordanova and in this episode, we will look at the virtue of adequate funding and finance or more specifically, how governments can get to grips with the financialisation of homes. The guest of the show today is Professor Manuel Aalbers who is a human geographer, sociologist and urban planner teaching at the prestigious KU Leuven University in Belgium. His main research interest is in the intersection of housing and finance which as you will hear, has turned into one of the biggest challenges of our time that we need to solve if we want our communities to thrive. Manuel Aalbers will join the main panel of the upcoming Housing 2030 conference ‘Shaping investment pathways to deliver affordable housing’ which will take place online on 14th April. Last registrations are open at www.housingeurope.eu and www.housing2030.org. We are also curious to hear your thoughts, so feel free to reach out to us on communications@housingeurope.eu or via the #Housing2030 hashtag.

The Cultural Life of Money and Finance
Cultural Life of Money and Finance 8: Kathryn Brown on art markets and financialisation

The Cultural Life of Money and Finance

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 26, 2021 38:25


The Cultural Life of Money and Finance podcast explores money and finance through the arts and humanities – asking new questions about finance, the global financial system, and financial behaviour in the twenty-first century. In a series of conversations with researchers and practitioners, we look at how money is being, and has been, thought about in different contexts – across historical, cultural, ethical, religious, social, and material settings. The Cultural Life of Money and Finance project is based at the University of Leeds, and is led by Matthew Treherne, Rachel Muers and Mark Davis. The project is supported by the Leeds Arts and Humanities Research Institute, and by the Leeds Creative Labs scheme at the Cultural Institute at the University of Leeds. In this episode, Matthew is joined by Kathryn Brown, Senior Lecturer in Art History and Visual Culture at Loughborough University. They discuss how the development of art markets in the twentieth century displayed particular forms of financialisation; what art markets can reveal about financial practices; and how financial and aesthetic considerations can coincide in the experience of viewing art. Kathryn is the author of Matisse: A Critical Life (Reaktion, 2021), as well of articles on art markets and finance. To learn more about her work, see https://www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/communication-media/staff/kathryn-brown/#tab5. For more information on the Culture Life of Money and Finance Project, please visit https://culturallifeofmoney.leeds.ac.uk, and follow us on Twitter @CulturalMoney. The podcast was edited by Lisa Trischler.

For Food's Sake
FFS 047 - Soy: a destructive wonderbean

For Food's Sake

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2021 65:15


From its more humble origins to its modern-day status as a dominant yet destructive wonderbean, the story of soy concerns us all.   Soy is much more than tofu or tempeh. It's a global commodity crop: the driving force of animal agriculture and a hidden fuel of growing importance for our cars.   In this episode, we deep dive with Dr. Christine M. Du Bois into the history of soy and the vital role it continues to play in our lives.   Christine M. Du Bois is a former co-manager of the Johns Hopkins Project on Soy. She is the author of The Story of Soy (2018) and Images of West Indian Immigrants in Mass Media: The Struggle for a Positive Ethnic Reputation (2004) and is the lead editor and coauthor of The World of Soy (2008). She has published poetry at BourgeonOnline.com. She lives in Pennsylvania.   We discuss: How we use the modern soybean: ubiquitous yet unseen The bean's Manchurian origins The rise of the 'Cinderella crop' Mass deforestation, billionaire Blairo Maggi and the ‘United Republic of Soy’ The role of China, geopolitics and the future of soy   Links: The Story of Soy (2018)- Christine M. Du Bois The World of Soy (2008) - Christine M. Du Bois, Chee-Beng Tan, Sidney Mintz (Eds.) Rise of the 'wonder bean': from deforestation to your plate - The Guardian   You might also like: FFS 039 - The Invisible ABCD Giants and the Financialisation of Food FFS 027 - A World Without Chocolate FFS 013 - How Plants Domesticated Humans

The Panpsycast Philosophy Podcast
Episode 91, ‘How to Save the World from Financialisation’ with Grace Blakeley (Part II - A Green Future, Further Analysis and Discussion)

The Panpsycast Philosophy Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 14, 2021 26:59


‘History has ended, and capitalism is the last man standing. The innovations and freedoms enjoyed by the Global North have shown that the free market is the only viable economic system; it is almost impossible to imagine a coherent alternative.’ This was certainly the view of Margaret Thatcher, who was elected as Prime Minister amidst the turbulence of 1980s’ Britain. For many, unleashed from the shackles of pre-1970s’ economics, Thatcher restored order and long-term prosperity to a country in crisis: solving industrial disputes, taking on the unions, cutting income tax, and creating a nation of entrepreneurs and homeowners. As we will hear, economic commentator Grace Blakeley has little sympathy for this view. For Blakeley, neoliberalism was a system geared towards maximising share profits over goods and services: a dangerous economic model that puts shareholders first, customers second, and workers last. As we left ‘the golden age of capitalism’, the rising tides of climate catastrophe, global poverty, and vast increases in income inequality eventually came knocking at the doors of world governments... but nobody answered. As prime ministers and presidents pretended they weren’t home, a guest arrived who hadn’t the courtesy of knocking. In 2008, the world watched on as the market collapsed in the biggest economic crash since 1929. The house of cards had fallen – the contradictions of Western, free market economics had caught up with us. After the crash, governments announced £500bn in spending as they bailed out the world’s banks. Now, history repeats itself once more in the wake of the Corona Crash. Contents Part I. A World in Crisis Part II. A Green Future, Further Analysis and Discussion Links Grace Blakeley, Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation Grace Blakeley, The Corona Crash: How the Pandemic Will Change Capitalism

The Panpsycast Philosophy Podcast
Episode 91, ‘How to Save the World from Financialisation’ with Grace Blakeley (Part I - A World in Crisis)

The Panpsycast Philosophy Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 7, 2021 45:20


‘History has ended, and capitalism is the last man standing. The innovations and freedoms enjoyed by the Global North have shown that the free market is the only viable economic system; it is almost impossible to imagine a coherent alternative.’ This was certainly the view of Margaret Thatcher, who was elected as Prime Minister amidst the turbulence of 1980s’ Britain. For many, unleashed from the shackles of pre-1970s’ economics, Thatcher restored order and long-term prosperity to a country in crisis: solving industrial disputes, taking on the unions, cutting income tax, and creating a nation of entrepreneurs and homeowners. As we will hear, economic commentator Grace Blakeley has little sympathy for this view. For Blakeley, neoliberalism was a system geared towards maximising share profits over goods and services: a dangerous economic model that puts shareholders first, customers second, and workers last. As we left ‘the golden age of capitalism’, the rising tides of climate catastrophe, global poverty, and vast increases in income inequality eventually came knocking at the doors of world governments... but nobody answered. As prime ministers and presidents pretended they weren’t home, a guest arrived who hadn’t the courtesy of knocking. In 2008, the world watched on as the market collapsed in the biggest economic crash since 1929. The house of cards had fallen – the contradictions of Western, free market economics had caught up with us. After the crash, governments announced £500bn in spending as they bailed out the world’s banks. Now, history repeats itself once more in the wake of the Corona Crash. Contents Part I. A World in Crisis Part II. A Green Future, Further Analysis and Discussion Links Grace Blakeley, Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation Grace Blakeley, The Corona Crash: How the Pandemic Will Change Capitalism

Reboot Republic Podcast
Ep.67 – The Financialisation of Housing with Prof Manuel Aalbers

Reboot Republic Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2021 55:23


In this very special Reboot Republic Podcast I am joined by Professor Manuel Aalbers, professor of urban and economic geography at the University of Leuven and author of The Financialization of Housing. Manuel explains how the financialisation of housing – the increased treatment of housing as a financial asset is leading to major problems and exclusion in housing systems, such as Generation Rent. He explains how and why global investors are turning homes into wealth accumulating commodities and outlines the downsides of schemes that use subsidies to try promote home ownership as they push up house prices and do not ensure access to housing overall. We also discuss the importance of increasing the provision of social housing, and some ideas for providing affordable housing through regulations on land development, cooperative housing and the decriminalisation of squatting of vacant housing and buildings in order to force their owners to rent out homes. Finally Manuel explains that COVID once more shows, as previous crises have also shown, that housing is a basic human right and that governments must make housing plans and policies to ensure people have access to it. Support this podcast at: patreon.com/tortoiseshack

Analysand
EP - 015 Debt [TH]

Analysand

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2021 42:19


วาระนี้ #Analysand มาพูดคุยเรื่องหนี้ อันเป็นภาวะที่เราทุกคนน่าจะได้เจอ หรือได้เกี่ยวข้องไม่มากก็น้อย เนื่องจากประเด็นใหญ่มาก จึงยกเรื่องการเมืองว่าด้วยการต่อต้าน/ยกเลิก/ปลดหนี้ไปในวาระถัดๆ ไปนะครับ ขอขอบคุณสหายศิริวัชรผู้ช่วยปรับ/ตัดแต่งเสียง สหาย Anaïs ผู้ช่วยด้านกราฟิค (ติดตามเพจได้ที่ https://www.facebook.com/Anaiiis09/) และสหายผู้สนับสนุนค่าใช้จ่ายในการอัด ณ สตูดิโอ โดยไม่ประสงค์ออกนาม และเช่นเคย หากผู้ฟังท่านใดสนใจติชมสามารถ comment ไว้ได้ที่ SoundCloud, YouTube, @the_analysand ใน Twitter, หรือส่ง E-mail มาได้ที่ analysand@protonmail.com ครับ ข้อมูลเพิ่มเติม ========== - Maurizio Lazzarato (เกิด 1955) มารฺกซิสต์กลุ่ม Autonomia ผู้เขียนหนังสือเรื่องหนี้ไว้ เช่น M. (Maurizio) Lazzarato, Governing by Debt, trans. by Joshua David Jordan, Semiotext(e) Intervention Series, 17 (South Pasadena, CA: Semiotext(e), 2015). - Franco "Bifo" Berardi (เกิด 1949) มารฺกซิสต์กลุ่ม Autonomia หนังสือที่น่าสนใจ เช่น Franco Berardi, The Soul at Work: From Alienation to Autonomy, Semiotext(e) Foreign Agents Series (Los Angeles, CA: Semiotext(e), 2009). - Yanis Varoufakis (เกิด 1961) อดีตรัฐมนตรีของรัฐบาลพรรค Syriza ของกรีซ ผู้เรียกตัวเองว่า มารฺกซิสต์พิศดาร (erratic Marxist)โปรดดูบทความแนะนำตัวของเขาได้ใน http://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/feb/18/yanis-varoufakis-how-i-became-an-erratic-marxist - Harry Cleaver (เกิด 1994) มารฺกซิสต์ชาวอเมริกัน ตัวอย่างงานเกี่ยวกับหนี้คือ Harry Cleaver, ‘Close the IMF, Abolish Debt and End Development: A Class Analysis of the International Debt Crisis', Capital & Class, 13.3 (1989), 17–50. - Grace Blakeley (เกิด 1993) นักเศรษฐศาสตร์ชาวอังกฤษ หนังสือที่น่าสนใจคือ Grace Blakeley, Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation, 1st edn (London: Repeater Books, 2019). - หนังสือที่มารฺกซ์พูดร่ายยาวไว้เกี่ยวกับเหรียญที่ปฐมพงศ์อ่านคือ Karl Marx, Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy (Rough Draft), trans. by Martin Nicolaus, Penguin Classics, 23. print. - หนังสือเรื่องหนี้ที่ปฐมพงศ์พูดถึงคือ David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Updated and expanded edition (Brooklyn: Melville House, 2014). - หนังสือเรื่องพ่อสอนลูกที่ปฐมพงศ์พูดถึงคือ Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter about the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism, trans. by Jacob Moe, 2019. ซึ่งมีแปลไทยโดยคุณ พิษณุ พรหมจรรยา ในชื่อ คุยกับลูกสาวเรื่องเศรษฐกิจ ประวัติศาสตร์ย่อของทุนนิยม - การปกครองโดยหนี้ที่ปฐมพงศ์พูดถึงคือบทที่ 5 ของหนังสือ Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval, Never Ending Nightmare: The Neoliberal Assault on Democracy, trans. by Gregory Elliott (London ; New York: Verso, 2019). - เรื่องหนี้ในไบเบิ้ลมีมากมาย สำหรับเรื่อง 'อุปมาเรื่องทาสที่ไม่ยอมให้อภัย' ที่ปฐมพงศ์พูดถึงอยู่ใน มัทธิว 18.21-35 โปรดดู https://www.bible.com/th/bible/174/MAT.18.THSV11 เรื่องความโกรธแค้นต่อเจ้าหนี้ในไบเบิ้ลฉบับพันธะสัญญาเดิมอยู่ใน เนหะมีย์ 5.3-7 โปรดดู https://www.bible.com/th/bible/174/NEH.5.THSV11 และเรื่องการยกเลิกหนี้ในไบเบิ้ลที่เรียกว่า 'ปีอิสรภาพ' อยู่ใน เลวีนิติ 25.8-13 โปรดดู https://www.bible.com/th/bible/174/LEV.25.THSV11 - ฟังเรื่อง financialisation ที่ Grace Blakeley พูดไดใน YouTube: https://youtu.be/N12-2qNKKpA หรือ SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/novaramedia/tysky-sour-how-to-save-the-world-from-financialisation-ft-grace-blakeley - ดูกราฟการชะงักงันของค่าแรงจาก Economic Policy Institute ได้ที่ https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/ - รายการปลดหนี้ที่ปฐมพงศ์พูดถึง คือ รายการ 'ปลดหนี้พลิกชีวิต' ออกอากาศครั้งแรกปี 2001 สิ่งที่ติดค้าง ======== - เรื่องการเมืองของหนี้ในศาสนาพุทธกับอิสลาม ไว้อาจยกยอดไปคุยครั้งหน้าครับ ข้อผิดพลาด ======== - เรื่องการลุกฮือของประชาชนในจักรวรรดิจีน ประมาณ 1.8 ครั้งต่อชม. จริงๆ ปีนึงไม่ใช่หลายร้อย แต่เป็นหลักพัน (หรือ 43 ครั้งต่อวันโดยประมาณ โปรดดู เชิงอรรถที่ 21 ในบทที่ 10 ของ David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Updated and expanded edition (Brooklyn: Melville House, 2014).

Hidden Cities
Housing Financialisation and Human Rights

Hidden Cities

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2020 25:32


In her role as United Nations Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, Leilani Farha explored the role of housing financialisation in the wake of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. This episode investigates the link between housing rights and human rights, and the global financial instruments that threaten them. 

The Cultural Life of Money and Finance
Cultural Life of Money and Finance 4: Dante and contemporary financialisation, with Mark Davis and Matthew Treherne

The Cultural Life of Money and Finance

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 5, 2020 40:01


The Cultural Life of Money and Finance podcast explores money and finance through the arts and humanities – asking new questions about finance, the global financial system, and financial behaviour in the twenty-first century. In a series of conversations with researchers and practitioners, we look at how money is being, and has been, thought about in different contexts – across historical, cultural, ethical, religious, social, and material settings. The Cultural Life of Money and Finance project is based at the University of Leeds, and is led by Matthew Treherne, Rachel Muers and Mark Davis. The project is supported by the Leeds Arts and Humanities Research Institute, and by the Leeds Creative Labs scheme at the Cultural Institute at the University of Leeds. In this episode, Mark and Matthew discuss Dante's response to developments in finance in late medieval Italy, exploring how the issues associated with avarice, usury and banking connect with twenty-first-century concerns about credit and debt, green finance, and the effects of economic growth. The conversation was first recorded as part of the Leeds Dante Podcast series, "Conversations on Dante", in October 2020. For more information on the Culture Life of Money and Finance Project, please visit https://culturallifeofmoney.leeds.ac.uk, and follow us on Twitter @CulturalMoney.

The Cultural Life of Money and Finance
Cultural Life of Money and Finance 1: Creative responses to financialisation, with Invisible Flock

The Cultural Life of Money and Finance

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 4, 2020 43:44


The Cultural Life of Money and Finance podcast explores money and finance through the arts and humanities – asking new questions about finance, the global financial system, and financial behaviour in the twenty-first century. In a series of conversations with researchers and practitioners, we look at how money is being, and has been, thought about in different contexts – across historical, cultural, ethical, religious, social, and material settings. The Cultural Life of Money and Finance project is based at the University of Leeds, and is led by Matthew Treherne, Rachel Muers and Mark Davis. The project is supported by the Leeds Arts and Humanities Research Institute, and by the Leeds Creative Labs scheme at the Cultural Institute at the University of Leeds. This episode presents a conversation between Rachel, Mark and Matthew, and Catherine Baxendale, Executive Producer of Invisible Flock. Invisible Flock are an award-winning arts studio based in the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, and have been our artistic partners in the Cultural Life of Money and Finance project. We discuss some of the themes that have emerged in our collaboration - how money and finance shape relationships between humans, and between humans and the natural world; how finance helps shape our experience of time; the role of the digital in shaping financial experience; and how artistic activity and innovation can help reimagine the place of money and finance in our lives and societies. To find out more about Invisible Flock, please visit https://invisibleflock.com; they are on Twitter @invisibleflock. For more information on the Culture Life of Money and Finance Project, please visit https://culturallifeofmoney.leeds.ac.uk, and follow us on Twitter @CulturalMoney.

CounterPunch Radio
Grace Blakeley – Episode 158

CounterPunch Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2020 72:30


This week Eric sits down with commentator, journalist, and author, Grace Blakeley, to discuss her new book "Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation." Eric and Grace explore the nature of the neoliberal period and what the process of financialization has done to the economic, political, and social life of the Global North. The conversation touches on everything from the nature of financialization as intertwined with imperialism to the role of electoral politics versus that of mass mobilization and street organizing. Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders make cameos, as do Lenin, Hilferding, and Schumpeter. Oh, and also climate breakdown. It's socialism or barbarism, and the choice is ours. Don't miss this wide-ranging chat on CounterPunch Radio! More The post Grace Blakeley – Episode 158 appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

CounterPunch Radio
Grace Blakeley – Episode 158

CounterPunch Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2020 72:30


This week Eric sits down with commentator, journalist, and author, Grace Blakeley, to discuss her new book "Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation." Eric and Grace explore the nature of the neoliberal period and what the process of financialization has done to the economic, political, and social life of the Global North. The conversation touches on everything from the nature of financialization as intertwined with imperialism to the role of electoral politics versus that of mass mobilization and street organizing. Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders make cameos, as do Lenin, Hilferding, and Schumpeter. Oh, and also climate breakdown. It's socialism or barbarism, and the choice is ours. Don't miss this wide-ranging chat on CounterPunch Radio!

Debated Podcast
Economic Policy w/ Grace Blakeley

Debated Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2020 38:48


In this episode we speak to the economist, journalist and author of Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation, Grace Blakeley about what Financialisation is, the difference between political and economic democracy, the position of the Labour Party under Keir Starmer, the sacking of Rebecca Long Bailey, the potential impact of a No Deal Brexit and the West's economic interactions with China. 

Manchester Green New Deal podcast
"We've got to rebuild trust" Finance, Class and the environment with Grace Blakeley

Manchester Green New Deal podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2020 69:33


Safe to say that he Economy as we formally know it has taken a nose dive. Britain has lost 20% of GDP over the course of lockdown as businesses closed up and demand slumped to save the population from Covid-19. But what is the British economy actually made of? Is GDP representative of the actual production of everyday people in the UK? Has chasing these golden numbers skewed the british economy into a place where traditional working class jobs are less important that they used to be? If there is to be a recovery and a green recovery at that, what does it look like under a Conservative government?To discuss the effects of finance on the environment and the working class  we are joined by economist and writer Grace Blakeley (@graceblakeley). Grace is the author of Stolen: how to save the world from Finacialisation. **links**Stolen: How to save the world from Financialisation https://repeaterbooks.com/product/stolen-how-to-save-the-world-from-financialisation/Still The Enemy Within https://the-enemy-within.org.uk/The New politics of Class: The Politics Exclusion of the Working Classhttps://www.waterstones.com/book/the-new-politics-of-class/geoffrey-evans/james-tilley/9780198755753Graces article on state monopolismhttps://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/06/the-era-of-state-monopoly-capitalism**Shout outs**Harriet L-S@harrielspencerDianne Abbot MP@HackneyAbbottSimukai Chigudu@SimuChiguduAnd his article on the Rhodes must fall campaign from a few weeks ago. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/12/oxford-black-professors-cecil-rhodes-british-empireIf you like the show tell your comrades!Find us on all the socials Twitter:@MCRGND_PODInsta: ManchestergndpodFB:MCRGNDPOD

Tech Won't Save Us
Fighting Back Against the Tech Monopolies w/ Grace Blakeley

Tech Won't Save Us

Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2020 43:56


Paris Marx is joined by Grace Blakeley to discuss how neoliberal capitalism benefits the tech monopolies, how they’re thriving as the COVID-19 pandemic continues, and how workers fight back after the defeat of Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn.Grace Blakeley is the author of “Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation,” a staff writer at Tribune Magazine, and serves on the Labour Party’s National Policy Forum. She also recently wrote about how COVID-19 is accelerating tech monopolization for Novara Media. Follow Grace on Twitter as @graceblakeley.Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter.Support the show (https://patreon.com/techwontsaveus)

Pluto Press: Radicals in Conversation
'Split: Class Divides Uncovered' with Ben Tippet, Grace Blakeley and Emily Scurrah

Pluto Press: Radicals in Conversation

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2020 47:08


Covid-19 has thrown the idea of class, and class society, into sharp relief, ridiculing many of our economic system’s foundational premises - for one, the idea that as a worker, your pay cheque is a reflection of your value to society. Facing the possibility of economic collapse and a new great recession, the overton window has shifted dramatically on state intervention in the economy, the value of public services, and the credibility of ideas such as universal basic income. But how is the current crisis likely to shift the balance of power between capital and labour? How can working people build class power amidst the lockdown? And how can we express meaningful solidarity, at the community, national and international level? In our latest episode of Radicals in Conversation, these questions are foregrounded, amidst a wider discussion of the meaning of class today. Joining us on the panel are Ben Tippet, author of Split: Class Divides Uncovered; Grace Blakeley, author of Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation, and Emily Scurrah, a researcher at the New Economics Foundation. --- Podcast listeners can get an exclusive discount on Split and other books related to this episode, at plutobooks.com/podcastreading. The full, unabridged version of this episode is available exclusively to Pluto Patreon members. Join today and help support independent, radical publishing. 

Faculti
Cultures of Inequality: Financialisation, Labour and Social Finance

Faculti

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 23, 2020 0:30


Lisa Magnani analyses the role of Social Finance as an example of financial innovation and provides an insight into the underlying inequality of power between Labour and Finance.

The Taxcast by the Tax Justice Network
#96: the financialisation of child and elderly care

The Taxcast by the Tax Justice Network

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 19, 2019 34:58


This month we ask - what's going on with our pre-school childcare and elderly care home services? We take a long hard look at the financialisation of our services and what we can do about it. Plus: the Conservative party in the UK has won a major victory in the general elections. With major challenges for tax justice, what are the next steps for trade deal negotiations? Will Britain become a fully fledged Singapore-on-Thames?

Hear the Bern
35 - Office Race (w/ Grace Blakeley)

Hear the Bern

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2019


Briahna talks to author Grace Blakeley about our era of hyper-capitalism, characterized by the growing dominance of the financial sector and weakened labor. Then, Hear the Bern producer Ben Dalton interviews an anonymous Amazon worker, who describes the company's union busting, mandatory overtime, and relentless monitoring of workers. Grace's book, Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/stolen-how-to-save-the-world-from-financialisation

The Booking Club
How To Save The World From Financialisation, with Grace Blakeley

The Booking Club

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 30, 2019 29:54


In her first book Stolen: How To Save The World From Financialisation, author and economics commentator Grace Blakeley argues that we are living through the death of an old economic order based on the failed economic policies of the 20th century. As Western countries struggle to manage the rise of right-wing extremism from within and the threat of extinction from without, it is now easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. The alternative to the bleak future this portends is a radical move towards democratic socialism, which Blakeley argues offers us the chance to free ourselves from the financial imperatives that have determined our lives for more than half a century, and that can avert our current course towards self-destruction.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coffee House Shots
Is this the climate change election?

Coffee House Shots

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 16, 2019 22:59


With Grace Blakeley, author of Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation, and Ryan Shorthouse, Director of Bright Blue, a centre-right thinktank. Presented by Katy Balls.

Spectator Radio
Coffee House Shots: is this the climate change election?

Spectator Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 16, 2019 22:59


With Grace Blakeley, author of Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation, and Ryan Shorthouse, Director of Bright Blue, a centre-right thinktank. Presented by Katy Balls. Coffee House Shots is a series of podcasts on British politics from the Spectator's political team and special guests. Brought to you daily, click here (https://audioboom.com/dashboard/4905581) to find more episodes that are not released on Spectator Radio.

Global Development Institute podcast
In conversation: Raquel Rolnik on the financialisation of housing

Global Development Institute podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 15, 2019 47:26


In this episode, Raquel Rolnik talked to Tom Gillespie and Isaac Rose about the financialisation of housing and her new book 'Urban Warfare: housing under the empire of finance'. Raquel Rolnik is a professor of Urban Planning at the University of São Paulo. She was National Secretary for Urban Programmes of the Brazilian Ministry of Cities (2003–2007). From 2008 to 2014, she held the mandate of UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing. Tom Gillespie is Lecturer in International Development at the Global Development Institute.  Isaac Rose is a a campaign coordinator at Greater Manchester Housing Action.

TRASHFUTURE
In John McDonnell’s Navy feat. Grace Blakeley

TRASHFUTURE

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 16, 2019 63:24


Finance-driven growth: It’s not good, folks! This week, Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Hussein (@HKesvani) join special guest Grace Blakely (@graceblakeley) to discuss the financialisation of the past 40 years and the post-2008 reckoning that we’re cursed to live through — which is the topic of Grace’s new book ‘Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation.’ We also discuss an amazing hit piece in the British tabloids that wants you to believe the Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has a private navy at his cabin in Norfolk. You can buy Grace’s book from the publisher here: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/stolen-how-to-save-the-world-from-financialisation/ — and if you buy it from Repeater Books you get a free e-book version as well. If you like this show, sign up to the Patreon and get a second free episode each week! You’ll also get access to our Discord server, where good opinions abound. https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture *LIVE SHOW ALERT* Guess who’s going to play live at The World Transformed in Brighton this September? That’s right, your favourite podcast lads. We’ll be on at 1.00 pm on Monday, 23rd September. Buy a ticket here: http://theworldtransformed.org If you want to buy one of our recent special-edition phone-cops shirt, shoot us an email at trashfuturepodcast[at]gmail[dot]com and we can post it to you. (£20 for non-patrons, £15 for patrons) Do you want a mug to hold your soup? Perhaps you want one with the Trashfuture logo, which is available here: https://teespring.com/what-if-phone-cops#pid=659&cid=102968&sid=front

TyskySour
Tysky Sour: How to Save the World From Financialisation

TyskySour

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2019 87:27


Grace Blakeley’s new book “Stolen: How to Save the World From Financialisation” offers a history of finance-led growth, and argues democratic socialism is the only way to escape it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N12-2qNKKpA

Novara Media
Tysky Sour: How to Save the World From Financialisation

Novara Media

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2019 87:27


Grace Blakeley’s new book “Stolen: How to Save the World From Financialisation” offers a history of finance-led growth, and argues democratic socialism is the only way to escape it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N12-2qNKKpA

Political Economy for the End Times
The Practical Origins of Neoliberalism and Financialisation with Samuel Knafo

Political Economy for the End Times

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 22, 2019 50:02


The Practical Origins of Neoliberalism and Financialisation with Samuel Knafo by Political Economy for the End Times

SOAS Economics: Seminar series, public lectures and events
Governing financialisation: A UK industrial strategy to ‘retain and reinvest’

SOAS Economics: Seminar series, public lectures and events

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2019 106:31


Abby Innes (LSE), Antonio Andreoni (SOAS), Komon Doulis (BEIS), Tom Ferguson (INET), Geoffrey Owen (LSE), Janet Williamson (Trade Union Council) Chair: Abby Innes, London School of Economics Presenter: Antonio Andreoni, SOAS University of London Panel Discussion: Komon Doulis, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), UK Government, Tom Ferguson, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Geoffrey Owen, London School of Economics, Janet Williamson, Trade Union Council Innovation by Britain’s firms will be a key determinant of national success in an increasingly competitive global environment for high-value industries. As Britain considers how to develop an industrial strategy ‘fit for the future’, however, the decline in long-term productivity in the UK continues to puzzle managers, academics and policy-makers. Recent research has highlighted the need to examine sectoral dynamics and include questions of industrial policy in a relevant historical context. Such work has helped to focus on the specific British industries and firms where issues of competitiveness, productivity and innovation need to be studied in detail. Conceptually, however, it remains necessary to enhance our understanding of the interplay between the development of innovative capabilities and the specific governance conditions that are required to generate sustained productivity growth at firm and industrial-ecosystem level. Developing such capabilities in innovative enterprises requires the commitment of financial resources to collective and cumulative learning processes within both the firm and its ecosystem. This commitment relies on the abilities and the incentives of those executives who exercise strategic control over the corporate allocation of financial resources and returns. We thus need to consider whether strategic decision-making within UK firms over the past two decades has been influenced by destructive financialization practices. The GoFinPro project has added to existing research into issues of productivity and innovation in UK industry by conducting historical firm-level research in order to build comparative studies of firms and sectors to examine the potential influence of financialisation practices on the development of UK firms within their sectoral and national specificities. The key manufacturing sectors of pharmaceuticals and aerospace were chosen to investigate indicators that link changes in corporate governance and financial behaviour to innovative capabilities and productivity performance. The GoFinPro Conference to be held at SOAS will bring together academics, policy makers and industry experts to discuss the findings of the study. The comparison of financialisation metrics of top UK firms with those of US and other European countries will consider how such practices have influenced productivity and competitiveness and what policy measures have facilitated or encouraged their adoption. The sectoral studies highlight the specific dynamics that explain why some UK firms have become more prone to value extraction that is not justified by value creation. The implications of the findings for future UK policy on corporate governance will be subject to debate. The GoFinPro project has been funded by the Gatsby Foundation and has been carried out at SOAS University of London in collaboration with Institut Mines Telecom Business School in France. Speakers: Abby Innes (LSE), Antonio Andreoni (SOAS), Komon Doulis (BEIS), Tom Ferguson (INET), Geoffrey Owen (LSE), Janet Williamson (Trade Union Council) Released by: SOAS Economics Podcasts

SOAS Economics: Seminar series, public lectures and events
The tension between innovation and financialisation: A UK perspective

SOAS Economics: Seminar series, public lectures and events

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 27, 2019 118:32


Antonio Andreoni (SOAS), William Lazonick (SOAS), Mike Best (University of Massachusetts Lowell), Colin Haslam (Queen Mary University of London), Damon Silvers (American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organisations), Deborah Johnston (SOAS) Chair: Antonio Andreoni, SOAS University of London Presenter: William Lazonick, SOAS University of London Panel Discussion: Mike Best, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Colin Haslam, Queen Mary University of London; Damon Silvers, American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organisations Innovation by Britain’s firms will be a key determinant of national success in an increasingly competitive global environment for high-value industries. As Britain considers how to develop an industrial strategy ‘fit for the future’, however, the decline in long-term productivity in the UK continues to puzzle managers, academics and policy-makers. Recent research has highlighted the need to examine sectoral dynamics and include questions of industrial policy in a relevant historical context. Such work has helped to focus on the specific British industries and firms where issues of competitiveness, productivity and innovation need to be studied in detail. Conceptually, however, it remains necessary to enhance our understanding of the interplay between the development of innovative capabilities and the specific governance conditions that are required to generate sustained productivity growth at firm and industrial-ecosystem level. Developing such capabilities in innovative enterprises requires the commitment of financial resources to collective and cumulative learning processes within both the firm and its ecosystem. This commitment relies on the abilities and the incentives of those executives who exercise strategic control over the corporate allocation of financial resources and returns. We thus need to consider whether strategic decision-making within UK firms over the past two decades has been influenced by destructive financialization practices. The GoFinPro project has added to existing research into issues of productivity and innovation in UK industry by conducting historical firm-level research in order to build comparative studies of firms and sectors to examine the potential influence of financialisation practices on the development of UK firms within their sectoral and national specificities. The key manufacturing sectors of pharmaceuticals and aerospace were chosen to investigate indicators that link changes in corporate governance and financial behaviour to innovative capabilities and productivity performance. The GoFinPro Conference to be held at SOAS will bring together academics, policy makers and industry experts to discuss the findings of the study. The comparison of financialisation metrics of top UK firms with those of US and other European countries will consider how such practices have influenced productivity and competitiveness and what policy measures have facilitated or encouraged their adoption. The sectoral studies highlight the specific dynamics that explain why some UK firms have become more prone to value extraction that is not justified by value creation. The implications of the findings for future UK policy on corporate governance will be subject to debate. The GoFinPro project has been funded by the Gatsby Foundation and has been carried out at SOAS University of London in collaboration with Institut Mines Telecom Business School in France. Speakers: Deborah Johnston (SOAS) Antonio Andreoni (SOAS), William Lazonick (SOAS), Mike Best (University of Massachusetts Lowell), Colin Haslam (Queen Mary University of London), Damon Silvers (American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organisations) Released by: SOAS Economics Podcasts

IIPPE Podcasts
Methods for Theorising and Exploring Processes of Financialisation

IIPPE Podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2019 35:35


IIPPE Financialisation Discussion Series Jennifer Churchill (Kingston University London) “I will be raising some questions regarding the success so far of empirical literature that has sought to locate processes of financialisation, and talking about some of the methods I have begun to steal from other social sciences to embolden my Institutionalist Post Keynesian approach.” Event Date: 3 May 2019 Released by: IIPPE Podcasts

SOAS Economics: Seminar series, public lectures and events
From Firms to Markets: How Digitization is Changing our Theories of Firm Level Growth

SOAS Economics: Seminar series, public lectures and events

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2019 77:17


Penrose Lecture 2 Rita McGrath (Columbia Business School) Rita Gunther McGrath is a world-renowned thought leader and an expert on leading innovation and growth during times of uncertainty. Rita is a professor at Columbia Business School and the author of five books, including the best-selling The End of Competitive Advantage and the upcoming Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen. She has received the #1 achievement award for strategy from the prestigious Thinkers50 and has been consistently named one of the world’s top ten management thinkers in its bi-annual ranking. Follow Rita on Twitter @rgmcgrath. For more information, visit RitaMcGrath.com. In partnership with the Financial Times. Please note that there are two lectures in this series: Register for Lecture 1 - "Financialisation and the innovative capability of firms: Penrose’s lessons loom large" (24th April) Register for Lecture 2 - "From firms to markets: How digitization is changing our theories of firm level growth" (26th April) Organiser: The Penrose Lectures Committee, SOAS University of London Speakers: Rita McGrath (Columbia Business School) Released by: SOAS Economics Podcasts

SOAS Economics: Seminar series, public lectures and events
Financialisation and the Innovative Capability of Firms: Penrose’s Lessons Loom Large

SOAS Economics: Seminar series, public lectures and events

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2019 67:57


Penrose Lecture 1 Rita McGrath (Columbia Business School) Rita Gunther McGrath is a world-renowned thought leader and an expert on leading innovation and growth during times of uncertainty. Rita is a professor at Columbia Business School and the author of five books, including the best-selling The End of Competitive Advantage and the upcoming Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen. She has received the #1 achievement award for strategy from the prestigious Thinkers50 and has been consistently named one of the world’s top ten management thinkers in its bi-annual ranking. Follow Rita on Twitter @rgmcgrath. For more information, visit RitaMcGrath.com. In partnership with the Financial Times. Please note that there are two lectures in this series: Register for Lecture 1 - "Financialisation and the innovative capability of firms: Penrose’s lessons loom large" (24th April) Register for Lecture 2 - "From firms to markets: How digitization is changing our theories of firm level growth" (26th April) Organiser: The Penrose Lectures Committee, SOAS University of London Speakers: Rita McGrath (Columbia Business School) Released by: SOAS Economics Podcasts

SOAS Economics: Seminar series, public lectures and events
Financial and Entrepreneurial Profitability in the USA in the Era of Financialisation

SOAS Economics: Seminar series, public lectures and events

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 1, 2019 105:42


Costas Lapavitsas (SOAS) A crucial feature of financialisation is the extraordinary increase of financial profits in relation to non-financial and total profits. The reasons for this increase are not well understood. To tackle this issue this paper adopts a Marxist approach to financialisation as a distinct historical period in the development of mature capitalism. On this basis it builds a macroeconomic model with a non-financial and a financial sector which is also stock-flow consistent along the lines of Godley. The model shows that the ratio of financial to non-financial profits depends positively on the net interest margin and the non-interest income of banks, but negatively on the general rate of profit, the non-interest expenses of banks, and the ratio of the capital stock to interest-earning assets. The model is subsequently tested for the US economy showing that financial profits have varied mainly with respect to the net interest margin, while non-interest income has also played a significant role. The crisis of 2007-9 represents a turning point in this respect, ushering in a period of weaker financial profits. Costas Lapavitsas is Professor in Economics at the SOAS Department of Economics. Speakers: Costas Lapavitsas (SOAS), Gregor Semieniuk (SOAS) Released by: SOAS Economics Podcasts

For Food's Sake
FFS 041 - On the Frontlines of Food

For Food's Sake

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2019 50:21


The continued expansion of industrial-scale chemical-intensive agriculture around the world relies on one central powerful myth: only industrial agriculture can feed the world.   Timothy A. Wise - author of Eating Tomorrow - joins us to discuss why, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, governments continue to invest in a model of farming that is devouring the natural resources on which future food production depends. By choosing the path of industrial agriculture today, we are, quite literally, “eating our collective tomorrows”. Tim and I discuss: Who actually “feeds the world” Who (or what) industrial agriculture feeds The failing Green Revolution in Africa: feeding corporations, not the hungry Alternative local agroecological solutions in Malawi and Mozambique nourishing people and planet How agroecology, not hybrid seeds, builds lasting resilience against floods and drought, the ‘evil twins of climate change’: Global trade and market failure: NAFTA devastating biodiversity and Mexican farmer livelihoods India’s National Food Security Act: the most ambitious anti-hunger program in the world and why the US opposes it   Timothy A. Wise directs the Land and Food Rights Program at Small Planet Institute. He is a Research Fellow in the Globalization Program at Tufts University’s Global Development and Environment Institute. With a background as an economic journalist and an international development practitioner, Wise’s research and writing have covered U.S. farm policies, trade and agricultural development, agricultural biodiversity, food prices and biofuels, and Mexico’s maize economy under the threat of genetically modified maize. He is also the former Executive Director of Grassroots International and a writer and editor at Dollars & Sensemagazine, and co-author of Confronting Globalization: Economic Integration and Popular Resistance in Mexico,The Promise and the Perils of Agricultural Trade Liberalization: Lessons from Latin America, and A Survey of Sustainable Development: Social and Economic Dimensions.   Links: Timothy A. Wise (2019) Eating Tomorrow: Agribusiness, Family Farmers, and the Battle for the Future of Food(The New Press) Small Planet Institute Website NY Book Launch - Eating Tomorrow (Youtube) Shiva, Vandana (1993) “Monocultures of the Mind”. Trumpeter: 10, 4. Anna Lappé & Food MythBusters – Do we really need industrial agriculture to feed the world? (YouTube)   You might also like: FFS 039 – The Invisible ABCD Giants and the Financialisation of Food FFS 036 – Chicken Nugget Capitalism FFS 034 – Wizards and Prophets  

Warwick Critical Finance
WCF Dialogue: Operationalisations of Financialisation

Warwick Critical Finance

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2019 83:47


If 'globalisation' was the dominating concept of the 1990s and 'neoliberalisation' followed in the 2000s, then 'financialisation' is arguably one of the hottest candidate for succession in the 2010s. Its inflationary use has been debated for some time now, without actually diminishing its appeal in various contexts. In order to think through the stakes attendant to the continued research of financialisation and its multiple operationalisations, we invited two active protagonists in these debates. Ève Chiapello and Pauline Gleadle discussed each other's work and critically assessed the ways in which the study of financialisation continues to shape the current critical debates about global finance and global capitalism more generally.

Warwick Critical Finance
WCF Dialogue: Operationalisations of Financialisation

Warwick Critical Finance

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2019 83:47


If 'globalisation' was the dominating concept of the 1990s and 'neoliberalisation' followed in the 2000s, then 'financialisation' is arguably one of the hottest candidate for succession in the 2010s. Its inflationary use has been debated for some time now, without actually diminishing its appeal in various contexts. In order to think through the stakes attendant to the continued research of financialisation and its multiple operationalisations, we invited two active protagonists in these debates. Ève Chiapello and Pauline Gleadle discussed each other's work and critically assessed the ways in which the study of financialisation continues to shape the current critical debates about global finance and global capitalism more generally.

Warwick Critical Finance
WCF Dialogue: Operationalisations of Financialisation

Warwick Critical Finance

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2019 83:47


If 'globalisation' was the dominating concept of the 1990s and 'neoliberalisation' followed in the 2000s, then 'financialisation' is arguably one of the hottest candidate for succession in the 2010s. Its inflationary use has been debated for some time now, without actually diminishing its appeal in various contexts. In order to think through the stakes attendant to the continued research of financialisation and its multiple operationalisations, we invited two active protagonists in these debates. Ève Chiapello and Pauline Gleadle discussed each other's work and critically assessed the ways in which the study of financialisation continues to shape the current critical debates about global finance and global capitalism more generally.

Stephan Livera Podcast
SLP47 Giacomo Zucco - Custodial LN, Altcoins, Financialisation, Attacks on Bitcoin

Stephan Livera Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2019 75:10


Giacomo Zucco, well known Bitcoin advocate, Supremo of BHB Network, and bitcoin consultant/teacher joins me in this episode. We talk: His Bitcoin 'rage quit'! The recent trend of Lightning Network custodial wallets, and whether this is on net a good or bad thing Thoughts on altcoins - are some of them honest, good faith efforts? Might they be technologically interesting, but still not monetarily relevant? Bitcoin financialisation - Does Bitcoin need financialisation or does finance need Bitcoin? Attacks on Bitcoin that may come Giacomo links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/giacomozucco Giacomo’s ‘rage quit’ thread: https://twitter.com/giacomozucco/status/1084411808734240769 The B: https://theb.foundation/ BHB Network: https://www.blockchainlab.it/ Stephan links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/@stephanlivera Website: https://stephanlivera.com/ Patreon: http://patreon.com/stephanlivera Tallycoin (BTC/LN donations): https://tallyco.in/stephanlivera/

For Food's Sake
FFS 039 - The Invisible "ABCD" Giants and the Financialisation of Food

For Food's Sake

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 18, 2018 50:41


Four grain trading giants - collectively known as the ABCDs - dominate international grain trade in our global food system. Knowing who they are and what they do is vital to understand the whys and hows of our modern food supply.  A key branch of ABCD power and influence are their financial subsidiaries. Financialisation in the food system today has widespread and alarming implications. Local food movements, farmers and consumers must take heed of these global forces, or risk being crowded out by private interests pursuing profit over people and planet. Dr. Jennifer Clapp joins us to discuss: Who the ABCDs are, where and how they operate, and why they dominate Recent ABCD mergers and acquisitions and the impact of Trump’s trade war with China The merging of food & finance: the financialisation of futures markets How financial speculation helped fuel the 2008 food price crisis Why financial investors moved en masse to acquire farmland ABCD involvement in the financialisation of the food system How to regulate invisible giants and the financialisation of food   Dr. Clapp is a Canada Research Chair in Global Food Security and Sustianability and Professor in the School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability at the University of Waterloo, Canada. She has published widely on the global governance of problems that arise at the intersection of the global economy, the environment, and food security. Her current research focuses on the implications of financial markets and transnational corporations for food system sustainability. Her most recent books include Speculative Harvests: Financialization, Food, and Agriculture (with S. Ryan Isakson, Fernwood Press, 2018), Food, 2nd Edition (Polity, 2016), Hunger in the Balance: The New Politics of International Food Aid (Cornell University Press, 2012), and Corporate Power in Global Agrifood Governance (co-edited with Doris Fuchs, MIT Press, 2009). Links: Speculative Harvests: Financialization, Food, and Agriculture (2018) – Jennifer Clapp & S. Ryan Isakson Food. 2nd Edition (2016) – Jennifer Clapp Hunger in the Balance: The New Politics of International Food Aid (2012) – Jennifer Clapp Corporate Power in Global Agrifood Governance– Jennifer Clapp & Doris Fuchs (Eds.) (2009) ‘Cereal Secrets: The World’s Largest Grain Traders and Global Agriculture’ Oxfam (2012) – Jennifer Clapp, David Burch & Sophia Murphy You May Also Like: FFS 035 – Chicken Nugget Capitalism FFS 026 – We Need To Talk About Monsanto FFS 020 – Optimising the Food Economy with Blockchain

This is Capitalism
Financialisation: The New Age of Capitalism - Episode 9

This is Capitalism

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 20, 2018 14:07


Banking used to be a laid-back profession involving long lunches and the odd loan approval to a business. Over the last few decades that has all changed as financial institutions focus increasingly on selling products to the public and thinking up ever more complicated money making schemes for the world markets. This process - often described as financialisation - has meant increased profits for the banks but is also seen as a threat to the rest of the economy. Authors Rana Foroohar and Joshua Ryan-Collins argue that some financial institutions may once again repeating old mistakes

Politics Theory Other
#17 Grace Blakeley on financialisation and the UK economy

Politics Theory Other

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 24, 2018 41:49


Grace Blakeley joins me to discuss the neoliberal financialisation of the UK and world economies, the coming reckoning with the UK's current account deficit, and how we can wrest control away from the City and fund a real industrial strategy. You can read Grace's report, On Borrowed Time: Finance and the UK's current account deficit here: https://www.ippr.org/research/publications/on-borrowed-time If you enjoy the show please consider donating via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/poltheoryother

Culture, Power and Politics » Podcast
PFI: The Financialisation of Everything 

Culture, Power and Politics » Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2018


With Grace Blakely  The ‘Private Finance Initiative’ still sounds like a dry, technical procedure that nobody could get too excited about. That’s what it’s supposed to sound like. Journalists and government have colluded for 25 years in making sure that the public don’t take too much interest in it. In fact the PFI has been central to UK government policy since the mid 1990s and has been the vehicle through which huge chunks of the British public sector have been privatised without any mandate from the people. One of Stuart Hall’s last great public interventions was to call for the launch of a public campaign against this programme in 2000 – he could see how serious its implications were. The story of the Private Finance Initiative reached its long-predicted denouement this year with the collapse of Carillion, a company employing 43,000 workers, responsible for dozens of contracts to deliver services across the UK public sector. The biggest bankruptcy in British history has exposed what many economists and political commentators have been saying for years: the PFI was a disastrous policy that was never really intended to benefit the public, but to enable multinational corporations to generate vast profits at the expense of the tax-payer, local authorities, schools and hospitals But what exactly is the PFI, how does it work, and why are the Blairites still opposed to actually scrapping it?

ART ON THE BLOCKCHAIN Podcast
Episode 19 | A Conversation w/Judy & Bea of dada.nyc

ART ON THE BLOCKCHAIN Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2018 87:14


Top 5 News – AOTB July 2, 2018 Shoutout to this week's Sponsors: Ethereal and bitsonline.com 1. As of today, an unknown buyer purchases art work by Benjamin Katz called “Chasing Hearts/Northern Lights” from the Āto Gallery, an online gallery founded by Carrie Eldridge for 150 bitcoin – or the equivalent of more than $1.25 million at the time of the sale. https://news.artnet.com/market/ato-gallery-cryptocurrency-bitcoin-1297832 … … 2. May 22, 2018 Report called “The Art Market 2.0 – Blockchain and Financialisation in Visual Arts” by Duncan MacDonald-Korth, Vili Lehdonvirta and Eric T. Myer supported by the University of Oxford and The Alan Turing Institute was released recently. https://www.dacs.org.uk/DACSO/media/DACSDocs/Press%20releases/The-Art-Market-2-0-Blockchain-and-Financialisation-in-Visual-Arts-2018.pdf … … https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/08/arts/art-financialization-blockchain.html … … 3. June 12, 2018 article “Blockchain Art: The Market is Here and What You Need to Know” posted on Cultbytes written by Steven Buchko. http://cultbytes.com/all/blockchain-art-market-is-here/ … … 4. Article called “Artists as cryptofinanciers: welcome to the blockchain” by Ben Luke talks about Art Basel and the blockchain’s influence on the conference programming, including a group discussion by Simon Denny and quotes Ruth Catlow of Furtherfield and Ben Vickers, CTO of Serpentine Galleries in London. https://www.artbasel.com/news/artists-as-cryptofinanciers--welcome-to-the-blockchain … … 5. New to Me Department – Elastos! This organization has proposed to “adopt a flexible main chain and sidechain blockchain design structure” because Ethereum blockchains are made for “consensus-based record keeping, but lack computation speed or flexibility. They have an extensive schedule that might be worth checking out. Elastos Video Contest deadline is July 15. Fresco Art Award competition sponsored by FRESCO & Elastos with the theme of blockchain runs through August 22. https://medium.com/elastos/elastos-weekly-updates-08-june-2018-f9546f55c3fc … … White paper: https://www.elastos.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/White%20Papers/elastos_whitepaper_en.pdf?_t=1526235330 … … Twitter Handles: @DACSForArtists @oiioxford @turinginst @cryptoartcom @elastos.org @cultbytes @dennnnnnnnny @ViliLe @ato_gallery @MyCurioCards @furtherfield @robmyers @benvickers_ @jonas_lund @EddFornieles @yaoeo @bitsonline MeetUp: http://www.meetup.com/Art-on-the-Blockchain-Meetup/ … … Instagram: @aotb_podcast Twitter: @AOBT_PODCAST Disclaimer – The AOTB podcast is not a recommendation or endorsement for any of businesses or services mentioned. AOTB is not advising anyone to invest or rely upon any statements made during this podcast. It is intended for entertainment purposes only. The views are our own.

IIPPE Podcasts
Reconsidering the Finance-Investment Nexus under the Spotlights of Financialisation

IIPPE Podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 8, 2018 88:57


Daniele Tori (Open University) Reconsidering the finance-investment nexus under the spotlights of financialisation. The IIPPE Financialisation Working Group (IIPPE FWG) will discuss financialisation and related issues across various approaches to political economy. Please join us at SOAS for the monthly discussion series where we will engage with various topics. Each meeting will be opened with a brief presentation in light of few suggested readings and an open discussion will follow. Suggested readings: Tori, D. Onaran, O. (2017). The effects of financialisation and financial development on investment: Evidence from firm-level data in Europe. GPERC WP #44 Available at: http://oro.open.ac.uk/47988/1/Effects%20of%20financialization%20and%20financial%20development%20on%20investment_Tori%20and%20Onaran.pdf Levine, R. (1997). Financial development and economic growth: views and agenda. Journal of economic literature, 35(2):688-726. Available at: http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2729790.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A55a3177eff6aace6744f812b71e53300 Levine, R. (2005). Finance and growth: theory and evidence. Handbook of economic growth 1:865-934. (Intro + Chapter 3) Available at: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/2048/b3f1f7f7c18be8d26192a8a77bc2c6abe448.pdf Love, I. (2003). Financial development and financing constraints: International evidence from the structural investment model. The Review of Financial Studies, 16(3):765-791. IIPPE Financialisation Discussion Series Event date: 23 April 2018 Released by: IIPPE Podcasts

Room for Everyone
The financialisation of housing

Room for Everyone

Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2018 40:31


We discuss the financialisation of housing, negative gearing and other tax rorts, how banks create credit, and what this all means for people trying to house themselves in Sydney and beyond...

IIPPE Podcasts
Financialisation and the State

IIPPE Podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2018 96:30


IIPPE Financialisation Discussion Series Ewa Karwowski (University of Hertfordshire) The IIPPE Financialisation Working Group (IIPPE FWG) will discuss financialisation and related issues across various approaches to political economy. Please join us at SOAS for the monthly discussion series where we will engage with various topics. Each meeting will be opened by a member of IIPPE FWG with a brief introduction in light of few suggested readings and an open discussion will follow. The details of our second event in 2018 are listed below: Suggested Readings: Karwowski & Centurion-Vicencio (2018): Financialising the State - Recent Developments in Fiscal and Monetary Policy http://www.fingeo.net/financialising-the-state-recent-developments-in-fiscal-and-monetary-policy/ Trampusch, C. 2015. The Financialisation of Sovereign Debt: An Institutional Analysis of the Reforms in German Public Debt Management, German Politics, 24(2), 119-36 Pacewicz, J. 2012. Tax increment financing, economic development professionals and the financialization of urban politics, Socio-Economic Review, 11(3), 413-40 Organiser: IIPPE Financialisation Working Group (IIPPE FWG) Event Date: 1 March 2018 Released by: IIPPE Podcasts

IIPPE Podcasts
Financialisation and the Periodisation of Capitalism

IIPPE Podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2018 116:12


Prof Photis Lysandrou (City University of London), Prof Simon Mohun (Queen Mary University of London), Prof Jan Toporowski (SOAS). IPPE financialisation working group invites you to a discussion on ‘Financialisation and the periodisation of capitalism’. As the concept gains prominence within social sciences, debates arise about situating financialisation within the history of capitalism. Is financialisation a contingent product of the economic shifts of the 1970s and 1980s? Is it a long-run tendency of capitalism? Join us for a discussion about these issues with Prof. Photis Lysandrou (City University of London), Prof. Simon Mohun (Queen Mary University of London), and Prof. Jan Toporowski (SOAS). The speakers will introduce their different viewpoints and discuss some theoretical implications concerning the incorporation of contextual aspects with respect to space and time, based on questions prepared by IIPPE financialisation working group. A general Q&A session will follow. The event is open to everyone, and is chaired by Dr Ulrich Volz, head of the department of Economics at SOAS. Speaker(s): Prof. Photis Lysandrou (City University of London), Prof. Simon Mohun (Queen Mary University of London), Prof. Jan Toporowski (SOAS), Ulrich Volz (SOAS) Organiser: IPPE Financialisation Working Group Event Date: 25 April 2017 Released by: IIPPE Podcasts

SOAS Economics: Seminar series, public lectures and events
Financialisation and Industrial Policies in Japan and Korea

SOAS Economics: Seminar series, public lectures and events

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 7, 2018 58:00


Sébastien Lechevalier (EHESS) This paper analyses the revival of industrial policies from the late 2000 s in Japan and Korea and their limitations. The paper first adopts the perspective of historical institutionalism to focus on the relation between IPs and financial systems and study their evolution over the last 40 years. Second the paper mobilizes the concepts of institutional complementarities and hierarchy, and discusses the limits of this revival in a context of liberalized financial systems, to which government entities in charge of industrial policies have contributed. A major finding is that, in the context of financialization, past complementarities of the developmental state have weakened and contradictions have arisen. It has resulted in a restructuration of state capabilities to design and implement industrial policies, and to its inability to subordinate finance to its goals, despite the discourses and ambitions of governments. However, comparison between Japan and Korea also allows the identification of some significant differences in the initial institutional arrangements and in the process of institutional change, pertaining to sources of greater state capabilities in Korea than in Japan in the current period. This paper is one of the outcomes of INCAS, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions R.I.S.E funded project under the European Commission’s H2020 Programme. Speaker biography: Sébastien Lechevalier is Professor at the EHESS (Paris), in charge of the chair "Asian capitalisms". He is also founding President of the Fondation France. Being an expert on the Japanese economy, he was previously a visiting researcher at the Maison Franco-Japonaise in Tokyo, Hitotsubashi University, the University of Tokyo, Waseda University and Kyoto University. His research interests includes institutional change, innovation and industrial economics, inequalities and welfare. Among his numerous publications, one may cite: The Great Diversity of Japanese Capitalism (Routledge, 2014), Lessons from the Japanese experience. Towards an alternative economic policy? (ENS Ulm, 2016, in French). His next book Innovation beyond technology: Science for society and interdisciplinary approaches is forthcoming in 2018 from Springer. Speakers: Sébastien Lechevalier (EHESS), Helen Macnaughtan (SOAS) Organiser: SOAS Japan Research Centre, SOAS Department of Economics and Japan Economy Network Event Date: 7 February 2018 Released by: SOAS Economics Podcast

SOAS Economics: Seminar series, public lectures and events

Susan Newman (University of the West of England), Sophie van Huellen (SOAS), Joseph Baines (King's College London) and Tania Salerno (University of Amsterdam) Deregulation of commodity futures markets in the early 2000s precipitated a growing interest of financial investors in commodity derivative markets, including food. This ‘financialisation’ of commodity markets arguably fuelled price volatility and speculative bubbles. The link between financial markets and food prices has served as one of the main transmission channels of the financial meltdown in 2008 to world trade and the real economy, with severe consequences for food security and income for some of the world’s poorest. At the same time, liberalisation of domestic markets paired with soaring and volatile food and fuel prices over recent decades have fostered an increasing dominance of large corporations in agri-food sectors with implications for the distribution of income across stakeholders. This panel aims to draw together several papers that shed light on the complex and multitude of linkages between finance and food. This episode features Panel 3 of the Workshop on ‘Political Economy Approaches to Food Regimes.’ This one-day workshop, was organised by the SOAS University of London Food, Nutrition and Health in Development Research Custer and brought together topics in contemporary food regime studies examined from a political economy perspective. Topics included inequality and food security, the state and food sovereignty, food regimes and the politics of conflict and financialisation of food. Paper One: ‘Financialisation Along Agro-Food Chains - Towards an Analytical Framework’ by Dr Susan Newman (University of the West of England, UK) Paper Two: ‘How Financial Investment Distorts Food Prices: Evidence from US Grain Markets’ by Dr Sophie van Huellen (SOAS University of London, UK) Paper Three: ‘Profiting from Food Crisis? Farmers, Commodity Traders and the Distributional Dynamics of Financialization’ by Dr Joseph Baines (King's College London, UK) Paper Four: Cargill’s ‘Global Acquisition Agenda’: Increased Control Through Financialisation by Dr Tania Salerno (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) Organiser: SOAS University of London Food, Nutrition and Health in Development Research Custer Event Date: 19 January 2018 Released by: SOAS Economics Podcast

SOAS Economics: Seminar series, public lectures and events
Financialisation and the Periodisation of Capitalism - in collaboration with IIPPE

SOAS Economics: Seminar series, public lectures and events

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2017 116:12


Prof Photis Lysandrou (City University of London), Prof Simon Mohun (Queen Mary University of London), Prof Jan Toporowski (SOAS). The IIPPE Financialisation Working Group invites you to a discussion on ‘Financialisation and the periodisation of capitalism’. As the concept gains prominence within social sciences, debates arise about situating financialisation within the history of capitalism. Is financialisation a contingent product of the economic shifts of the 1970s and 1980s? Is it a long-run tendency of capitalism? Join us for a discussion about these issues with Prof. Photis Lysandrou (City University of London), Prof. Simon Mohun (Queen Mary University of London), and Prof. Jan Toporowski (SOAS). The speakers will introduce their different viewpoints and discuss some theoretical implications concerning the incorporation of contextual aspects with respect to space and time, based on questions prepared by IIPPE financialisation working group. A general Q&A session will follow. The event is open to everyone, and is chaired by Dr Ulrich Volz, head of the department of Economics at SOAS. Speaker(s): Prof. Photis Lysandrou (City University of London), Prof. Simon Mohun (Queen Mary University of London), Prof. Jan Toporowski (SOAS), Ulrich Volz (SOAS) Organiser: IIPPE Financialisation Working Group Event Date: 25 April 2017 Released by: SOAS Economics Podcast

From Alpha To Omega
#048 Whither Underconsumptionism?

From Alpha To Omega

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2014 33:43


This week we have the second part of our interview with Professor Andrew Kliman. We continue our discussion about his latest book - ‘The Failure of Capitalist Production’ - and in particular focus on Andrews critique of the Underconsumptionist Theory of Crisis, which is pretty dominant on the Marxist and non-Marxist left alike. We hear how the empirical evidence sits squarely in the face of this theory, what role financialisation has actually played in the economy, and the similarities between Keynesianism and Underconsumptionism. We also talk about the new book Andrew is working on, and just how impressed I am by how well Marx’s theories are able to explain the world around us today. You can find the article for the New Left Project that Andrew mentions in the interview, critiquing Sam Gindin's view of the crisis as financial, here: http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/article_comments/clarifying_secular_stagnation_and_the_great_recession And you can find Sam Gindins response to Andrew here: http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/article_comments/underestimating_capital_overestimating_labour_a_response_to_andrew_kliman Enjoy!