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Financialisation of capitalist economies: bargaining on conventional economic rationalities
Die Finanzialisierung kapitalistischer Ökonomien: Aushandlungen der konventionenbasierten ökonomischen Rationalitäten
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Abstract "The paper deals with financialisation of capitalist economies since the 1990s drawing on a conventional concept of economic rationalities. It is argued that financial rationality is not the mere outcome of relations of power rooted elsewhere but a power resource on its own. It is analysed as one ty... view more
"The paper deals with financialisation of capitalist economies since the 1990s drawing on a conventional concept of economic rationalities. It is argued that financial rationality is not the mere outcome of relations of power rooted elsewhere but a power resource on its own. It is analysed as one type of bounded rationality among others, the recent predominance of which traces back mainly to a paradigmatic shift in economics. However predominance does not mean unambiguousness. It is demonstrated that financial rationality on the level of companies or companies' strategies always has to be interpreted and specified in the perspective of other rationalities. And effective financialised strategies are always the outcome of bargaining between social actors bringing into play various interests, power resources, and rationalities. The financial and economic crisis since 2007 is perceived as symptomatic for a new kind of systemic instabilities caused by the predominance of financial rationality." (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
twentieth century; convention; shareholder value; institutional economics; rationality; capitalism; national economy; financial crisis; economic crisis
Classification
National Economy
Basic Research, General Concepts and History of Economics
Method
descriptive study
Document language
English
Publication Year
2011
Page/Pages
p. 169-191
Journal
Historical Social Research, 36 (2011) 4
Issue topic
Conventions and institutions from a historical perspective / Konventionen und Institutionen in historischer Perspektive
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.36.2011.4.169-191
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed