Beyond Financialisation
Intellectual memories are often very short. It is not so long ago that leading the charge in explaining contemporary capitalism were notions around flexible specialisation, post-fordism and the end of mass production. The knowledge economy has provided a buffer between these now scarcely acknowledged concepts and attention to the crisis, with the latter having belatedly brought a focus on finance to the fore where previously it played little or no role at all. For global value, previously commodity, chains, it is as if finance did not exist despite the expanding variety of ideal types and factors incorporated to accommodate an equally expanding set of otherwise anomalous case studies.2 Now, in the wake of the global crisis, finance as a decisive factor is ignored at its peril. But has the pendulum, reflecting academic fashions, swung too far in the opposite direction? How are we to locate production (and economic and social reproduction more generally) in the era of finance?
Ben Fine
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
国际会议
北京
英文
36-54
2010-11-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）