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📚 Book Launch: Debt and the Future of Workers – Financialisation as Exploitation in the 21st Century

📅27 March 2026 | 16:30–18:00 (GMT)
📍 AG01, College Building

Join us for this discussion on #Debt, #Labour and #Financialisation in the 21st century.

Register: https://ow.ly/U1BK50YsJtf

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🏙️ #UrbanStudies 64(4) is out now!

✍ Includes a Debates Paper, articles on urban #agglomeration, #youthification, concessionary #governance, land #financialisation, #housing, socioeconomic #segregation, #infrastructures and #temporalities, and more.

🔓 6 Open-Access papers!

🔗 buff.ly/VhaM3eA

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In global financial capitalism, survival is tied to debt — especially for vulnerable women. What’s framed as “financial inclusion” often turns rights-holders into debt-holders.

Read Lena Lavinas’ DAWN paper on financialisation & assetisation.

#Financialisation #FeministPoliticalEconomy #DAWN40

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Central bank independence should be reframed in light of climate change, say economists Monetary and fiscal policy should work in tandem while balancing risk of political interference, say economists Geoff Mann and Ann Pettifor.

Pettifor says the financial industry is worse than the fossil industry. I am inclined to agree with her.

It's weak talk about a heavy subject, but it's happening.

#shareholdercapitalism #financialisation

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Book Launch - Mareike Beck - Extroverted Financialisation Mareike Beck will present her new book Extroverted Financialisation: Banking on USD debt in this session of our CITYPERC lecture series

EVENT: "Extroverted #Financialisation: Banking on USD debt", Mareike Beck (University of Warwick) will present her new book, February 24, 16:30 (GMT). A Zoom link to join:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

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🏛️ New in Socio-Economic Review:
Peugeot family capital, 1965–2020
🔎 A deep dive into how the family used a multi-layered holding structure to retain control, manage wealth, and expand into global financial investment.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/ser/...
#Financialisation #FamilyBusiness #Capitalism #SER

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Parasiti-capitalism: How Investors Drain Companies and Call It Growth How modern capital captures control, drains cash flow, and leaves economies weaker.

Clever Concept - 'Parasiti-Capitalism' - from @rwasserman.bsky.social guest post on @graceblakeley.substack.com substack.

#Financialisation
#ExtractiveCapitalism
#Enshitification

graceblakeley.substack.com/p/parasiti-c...

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The four evils: #neoliberalism, #financialisation, #deregulation and #shareholdercapitalism

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UK regulator warns 9 water companies over finances Ofwat scrutinising privatised utilities amid concerns about financial resilience

#Privatisation is #Financialisation - a few profit and the rest of us pay.

Public services should be run for public good not private profit

www.ft.com/content/b238...

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Financial accumulation in non-financial corporations: a firm-level assessment for the OECD Abstract. This article analyzes the determinants of financial accumulation in non-financial corporations (NFCs) at the firm level for OECD economies from 1

💼 Socio-Economic Review feature:
Financial accumulation in non-financial corporations (OECD, 1994–2021)
📈 Monetary policy & market capitalisation > profitability as drivers of firms’ financialisation. 🌍 Internationalisation matters too.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/ser/...

#financialisation #OECD #SER

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

🏘️ Just out:

Marginal housing financialisation in Thessaloniki: Rent gaps, tourism and the hesitance of institutional investors
by Philipp Katsinas, Christina Sakali & Nikos Vrantsis
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0969...

#UrbanJustice #HousingResearch #Financialisation #Thessaloniki #AcademicBluesky

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📢 New article by Emma Dowling et al. in New Political Economy: "Austrian exceptionalism in the #financialisation of housing and care: a precarious interplay of bulwarks and conduits"
Read online now ➡️ doi.org/10.1080/1356...

#Housing #WelfareState #ResidentialCare #Sociology @univie.ac.at

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Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure

#Shareholdercapitalism, #neoliberalism, #deregulation and #financialisation will not survive if they continue as they are

DJT's US is trying hard to self-destruct, but once climate change becomes severe, this reckless behaviour would spell the end of long-term investing and the financial system

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How financialisation is corroding education in the UK The government is standing by as foreign private equity firms buy up UK universities. This should be a major concern

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#universities
#financialisation

How financialisation is corroding education in the UK

--The government is standing by as foreign private equity firms buy up UK universities. This should be a major concern

Guy Standing, OpenDemocracy, 16 Sept 2025

www.opendemocracy.net/en/private-e...

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The strains on the private equity model are showing Firms are still struggling to deal with a lack of exits from their investments

The #FinancialSector - a threat to the security of us all.

#TooMuchFinance #Financialisation
www.ft.com/content/f86c...

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Making British homes affordable again Politicians have long blamed a housing shortage for soaring prices, but it is tax reform that can make the market less dysfunctional

#Financialisation

"Periods when house price spiral most extreme have coincided with the radical liberalisation of the British financial system... surge in prices, along with the extraordinary credit expansion, were the main drivers of housing market malfunction"
www.ft.com/content/d905...

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Original post on fediscience.org

Insightful paper on the consequences of the rise of ultra-processed foods in our diet, both for public health and planetary health.

What is the purpose of ultra-processed food? An exploratory analysis of the #financialisation of ultra-processed food #corporations and implications for public […]

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Private equity fundraising slides as sector’s downturn deepens Firms are struggling to raise money even as they offer discounts to attract new investors

The #FinancialSector - a threat to the security of us all.

If it does well, we all suffer. If it does badly, we are at great risk

#Financialisation
www.ft.com/content/f738...

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Has extreme poverty really plunged since the 1980s? New analysis suggests not Data from the World Bank suggests that extreme poverty has declined dramatically over the past four decades, from 47% of the world's population in 1981 to around 10% today.

#Neoliberalism #Financialisation

"1980/90s, additional one billion people thrown into extreme poverty, when market reforms were implemented across most of the global south, often under pressure from western-controlled financial institutions"

phys.org/news/2025-08...

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Tesla board awards $30bn of shares to ‘energise and focus’ Elon Musk World’s richest man threatened to quit as CEO of electric-vehicle maker if he was not given more stock

Lots of cleaners, teachers, nurses and street sweepers stay "energeised and focused" without any bonuses at all

#Inequality #Financialisation #FatCatPay @highpaycentre.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/ae08...

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Europe’s largest vets group could snub London IPO if regulator is too severe Chief executive of IVC Evidensia warns that his business would be unlikely to float in London if the UK competition regulator is too tough

"About 60% of vet practices in UK are owned by large companies, up from 10% in 2013, about 1,500 of 5,000 practices acquired by 6 groups."

#Financialisation of everything: a few profit and the rest of us, including animals, pay
www.thetimes.com/business-mon...

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Trickle-down - the government thinks benefits from deregulating the financial sector will trickle down to the rest of the country. Evidence shows otherwise

#Financialisation #Inequality #Insecurity

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Hothouse #SavingTheWorld webinars for July & August.

This Thursday, 17th July, @katesievert.bsky.social will be talking about #FoodSystem #financialisation: lnkd.in/g9ANkf83

On 21st August, David McCoy willl be speaking about #power, accountability and #GlobalHealth governance: lnkd.in/g8n7J9xA

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Rooming flats: How financialisation-led densification is spurring inner-city studentification in Lodz, Poland

📄 "Rooming flats: How financialisation-led densification is spurring inner-city studentification in Lodz, Poland"

✍️ Zasina & Żelazowski

🔍 How does the interplay of #Financialisation, #Densification and #Studentification affect Lodz, Poland?

📖 buff.ly/G5pfGYP

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OnlineFirst - "Reinventing renting? ESG investing and the new landlordism of build-to-rent housing financialization" by Jessica Parish:

#buildtorent #housing #financialisation #ESGinvesting #assetmanagement

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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ConWa Blog | Aalto University A blog for the ConWa research update.

Rediscovered Waterfronts and Growth Machines in Turin and Milan - Aurora Luukkonen and Konsta Anastasiou write about our ConWa project’s last week visit to Italy. #urbandevelopment #financialisation www.aalto.fi/en/departmen...

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@leilanifarha.bsky.social is in #Valencia, #Spain this weekend meeting with local and international experts to tackle the city's housing crisis.

#Housing #HumanRights #financialisation

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Trade, Debt and Financialisation :  What does it have to do with the food on your plate? https://www.csm4cfs.org/trade-debt-and-financialisation-what-does-it-have-to-do-with-the-food-on-your-plate  #Food #Trade #Debt #Financialisation   #FoodSovereignty #FoodSovereigntyNOW #RightToFood  #PeasantsRights #UNDROP

Trade, Debt and Financialisation : What does it have to do with the food on your plate? https://www.csm4cfs.org/trade-debt-and-financialisation-what-does-it-have-to-do-with-the-food-on-your-plate #Food #Trade #Debt #Financialisation #FoodSovereignty #FoodSovereigntyNOW #RightToFood #PeasantsRights #UNDROP

Trade, Debt and Financialisation :
What does it have to do with the food on your plate?
www.csm4cfs.org/trade-debt-and-financial...

#Food #Trade #Debt #Financialisation
#FoodSovereignty […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]

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GP premises owner to be sold to US private firms in £1.6bn deal The company that owns hundreds of GP surgery premises has agreed to a £1.6bn takeover by two US private firms.

#Privatisation - our NHS, not in our control.

A few profit and rest of us pay from #Financialisation
www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/premise...

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