Profiting Without Producing

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Profiting Without Producing is written by Costas Lapavitsas and published by Verso Books. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 178168197X (ISBN 10) and 9781781681978 (ISBN 13).

Financialization is one of the most innovative concepts to emerge in the field of political economy during the last three decades, although there is no agreement on what exactly it is. Profiting Without Producing puts forth a distinctive view defining financialization in terms of the fundamental conduct of non-financial enterprises, banks and households. Its most prominent feature is the rise of financial profit, in part extracted from households through financial expropriation. Financialized capitalism is also prone to crises, none greater than the gigantic turmoil that began in 2007. Using abundant empirical data, the book establishes the causes of the crisis and discusses the options broadly available for controlling finance.