financialization

alternative financialisation

1. uncountableeconomicsConversion of intangible value into financial instruments.

   The primary complaint leveled against the financialization of economies is that much of this activity is geared towards rent seeking.

   2015, Martin Ford, The Rise of the Robots, Oneworld Publications

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   Such growth would be fine if financialization really delivered on its promises—if financial firms made money by directing capital to its most productive uses, by developing innovative ways to spread and reduce risk.

   2009 July 17, Paul Krugman, “The Joy of Sachs”, in New York Times

   This book is a contribution to efforts to retheorize financialization, a term which refers to the increased power of the financial sector in the economy, in politics, in social life and in culture writ large.

   2014, M. Haiven, Cultures of Financialization: Fictitious Capital in Popular Culture and Everyday Life, Springer, →ISBN, page 1

   First, it is necessary to be explicit about what I am not asserting: specifically, that financialization represents an entirely novel phase of capitalism.

   2014, J. Timmons Roberts, Amy Bellone Hite, Nitsan Chorev, The Globalization and Development Reader: Perspectives on Development and Global Change, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 294

   The most widely cited definition of the term ‘financialization’ is probably that given by Epstein (2005) in his introduction to his edited book Financialization and the World Economy: ‘here we will cast the net widely and define financialization quite broadly: for us, financialization means the increasing role of financial motives, financial markets, financial actors, and financial institutions in the operation of the domestic and international economies’ (p. 3).

   2015, Sebastiano Fadda, Pasquale Tridico, The Economic Crisis in Social and Institutional Context: Theories, Policies and Exit Strategies, Routledge, →ISBN

   In other words, financialisation means more and bigger financial institutions—from banks, to hedge funds, to pension funds—wielding a much greater influence over other economic actors—from consumers, to businesses, to the state. The growth of finance has led to the emergence of a new economic model—financialisation represents a deep, structural change in how the economy works.

   2019, Grace Blakeley, Stolen, →ISBN

2. uncountableThe act of making, or treating as, financial; bringing something into the sphere of finance.