Financial Capital Globalization as Capital Discipline and the Socialist Alternative

John Milios National Technical University of Athens, john.milios@gmail.com

Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos The Open University Business School, UK, d.p.sotiropoulos@gmail.com

1. Globalization, financialization, crisis

The current financial crisis of capitalism is without precedent in the post-war period. Regarding the crisis, recent heterodox literature is dominated by a single and persistent argument. The argument is that globalization and financial liberalization should be pproached as a process in which the financial elites and financial intermediaries, i.e. contemporary rentiers in the Keynesian terminology, have a leading role in working out the details of the neoliberal form of capitalism.

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