The Routledge International Handbook of Financialization

"[M]akes a monumental contribution to debates on what financialization is, what it means to live in an (increasingly) financialized world, and how we, as academics and policymakers, might grapple with the various debates surrounding financialization, financial geography and associated processes."

- Frances Brill, Regional Studies

"This will be an indispensable working tool, not just for specialists, in one of the central fields in contemporary political economy."

- Wolfgang Streeck, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne

"Presenting an impressive range of authors and perspectives, this Handbook succeeds at delivering a comprehensive mapping of financialization studies. It is imaginatively organised and manages to bring coherence to this untidy and rapidly growing research field. This inevitably critical collection of chapters not only covers the reach and effects of finance, but also conveys some hope for future definancialization."
- Julie Froud, Professor of Financial Innovation, University of Manchester

"This book is a major contribution to the study of financialization. There has been an explosion in the term's use across a wide range of disciplines, which indicates the concept's usefulness. The book collates contributions from those disciplines, documenting how financialization helps understand both the "big picture" and developments in specific fields. It immediately establishes itself as the defining reference on financialization."

- Thomas Palley, independent economist, Washington, DC.

"This will be an indispensable working tool, not just for specialists, in one of the central fields in contemporary political economy."

- Wolfgang Streeck, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne

"Presenting an impressive range of authors and perspectives, this Handbook succeeds at delivering a comprehensive mapping of financialization studies. It is imaginatively organised and manages to bring coherence to this untidy and rapidly growing research field. This inevitably critical collection of chapters not only covers the reach and effects of finance, but also conveys some hope for future definancialization."
- Julie Froud, Professor of Financial Innovation, University of Manchester

"This book is a major contribution to the study of financialization. There has been an explosion in the term's use across a wide range of disciplines, which indicates the concept's usefulness. The book collates contributions from those disciplines, documenting how financialization helps understand both the "big picture" and developments in specific fields. It immediately establishes itself as the defining reference on financialization."

- Thomas Palley, independent economist, Washington, DC.