Sinopsis
1. Introduction
-Historical evolution of financial services
-Financialization
-Financial services in developing countries
-Some general observations
2. Money, the real economy and financial services
-Historical background
-Monetary economics in practice: extracting the surplus
-The price level and inflation
-Money and the process of growth
-The neoliberal revival in the 1980s
-Financialization marches on
-Financial services and the securities markets
-Implications for policy
3. Financial services, growth and development
-The economy and financial services
-Financing growth and development
-Industrial policy
-The evolution of financial services in the developing countries: 1950-1975
-The first Oil Shock and financial services in the developing countries
-The BCCI scandal
4. Financial services and the crisis of capitalism
-Capitalism and its variants
-Impact of the 2007/08 crisis
-Capitalism and inequality
-Can technology fix capitalism?
5. The future: making financial services subservient to the needs of society
-Background and overview
-Neoliberalism and finance
-Financialization: a major challenge
-Where do we go from here?
-Conclusions
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