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World Review of Political Economy Vol. 9, No. 4, Journal Article Is the Financialization Hypothesis a Theoretical Blind Alley? Stavros Mavroudeas and Demophanes Papadatos World Review of Political Economy Vol. 9, No. 4 (Winter 2018), pp. 451-476 Published by: Pluto Journals DOI: 10.13169/worlrevipoliecon.9.4.0451 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.13169/worlrevipoliecon.9.4.0451 Page Count: 26...

The following article was written for the Progressive Economy Forum’s publication – Ten Years Since the Crash: Causes, Consequences and the Way Forward – circulated at Labour Party Conference in October, 2018. 13th September, 2018 To fix things we need to first tell ourselves the correct story about how we got here. Financialization is easily the least studied and least explored reason behind our inability to create shared prosperity – despite our being the richest and most successful...

I'm not a forecaster. I do macro, and worked for Wynne Godley at the Levy, but I feel that there are too many dangers in forecasting. Wynne was also, btw, more concerned with what he called medium term scenarios, than pinpointing when a recession would take place. The obvious joke applies here. Economists have predicted 10 of the last 9 recessions. Having said that let me do the exact opposite and throw caution to the wind.So I'm going out on a limb here. Everybody thinks the recession...

China’s shadow banking activity stopped growing during the first six months of this year, according to Moody’s Investors Service, growing slower than the country’s nominal GDP for the first time since 2012. Shadow banking assets’ share of GDP fell to 82.6% of GDP as of June 30 this year, compared with its peak of 86.5% in 2016, according to an announcement posted on Moody’s website. The statement cited the effectiveness of recent regulatory measures aimed at reducing the financial...