financialisation
In the last four decades, we have experienced secular stagnation, priva[1]tisations, cuts in public investments and employment, and a rise in financialisation, financial profits, market concentration, profit share in Gross Domestic Product (GDP), unemployment, and inequality at the global level. This neoliberal era is marked by the inflation in stock markets fuelled by excess inflows through private pension funds and health insurances, advertisements, brand value, innovation, college education, and white-collar jobs. These should all be...
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Brochure of the European Action Coalition for the Right to Housing and to the City
Everyday, members of the European Action Coalition for the Right to Housing and the City witness the manifestations of the housing crisis and feel the need to address its systemic causes. We know that we must recognize how finance capital has gained a tremendous advantage from the transformation of commodified housing into an object of financial speculation to a larger extent than before.
This process is part of the financialization of housing alongside the increasing dominance of ...
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Report on the strategy meeting in Brussels, 6-7 Dec. 2012Background:One key approach of the Green Economy proposal is the financialization of nature: the pricing of nature and the application of market mechanisms for profit. A larger audience and policy makers lack information on these ongoing processes and concepts. This is the background of a decision taken at the Vienna conference on “Socio-ecological transformation and energy policy in Latin America and Europe” to make the financialization of nature as one of the thematic focuses in the project ...
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