... absconding Blue Wings Roaring English Duvell IPO stock market global financial market intraorganizational conflict institutionalization isomorphism selection adaptation financialization venture capital [The Education Industry] used to be a profitable industry. It required solid and rigorous...

...The extent to which capital markets compound, rather than offset, the effects of past injustice is itself unjust. For this reason, the state's decision in 2008 to support the liquidity wealth held as appreciated financial assets, could and should have been the focus of democratic efforts to harvest...

... estate markets are “performed” through historically and locally-specific professional practices. The book focuses on three main causes of overbuilding in commercial real estate: financial instruments and regulatory changes that boost liquidity in global capital markets; the practices of local...

...Since the Great Recession financial macroeconomists have argued that the US government should have supported the liquidity of accumulated capital, but that standard options theory can be used to price the premium that it could/should have extracted for guaranteeing macroeconomic liquidity...

...This chapter examines the role of financial markets in real estate development and how financial actors influence the form of American cities. It serves as a basic primer in development finance for the uninitiated, introducing the players who make up the contemporary system of real estate finance...

...This chapter describes Gurgaon and Indian real estate markets in 2014, six years after the research for the book was completed. Despite ongoing construction, the author did not find the real estate market that many had envisioned in 2006. In part because of the global financial crisis that began...

...The rapid spread of slavery into the frontier South during the 1820s and 1830s was dependent upon the availability of financial support for slaveholders, which came from both traditional commercial banks as well as new types of banking institutions specifically designed to meet the needs of a slave...

... on greater elasticity and easier access to monetary and financial resources, and the popular discourse of political economy gave way to academic economics. Amid the sweeping financialization of recent decades, however, the conditions may have emerged for a revival of the money question in new form. The dual...

...This chapter examines the shifting attitudes of banks towards the financialization of enslaved people during the post-War of 1812 boom and the ensuing Panic of 1819. Many southern banks—particularly those operating on the frontier—began pushing the boundaries of both their charter limitations...

...This chapter examines the creation of plantation banks during the 1830s, marking the pinnacle of the financialization of slavery. In particular, the capital-intensive nature of Louisiana sugar plantations required large, long-term loans that fell outside the scope of even the most permissive...

.... As the frontier of the 1830s became more settled, legislatures aggressively pushed back against bank financing of slavery, forcing slaveholders to pursue other methods of financial support. The more mature plantation system of the late 1840s instead relied for its financing on the few remaining banks, private...

...This epilogue considers the long-term implications of the financialization of enslaved people. In the immediate aftermath of emancipation, numerous court cases revolved around the question of whether the debtor or creditor should bear the pecuniary loss of emancipation. The few banks to survive...

...This chapter offers a history of the concept of “corporate culture.” It begins and concludes with the 2008 financial crisis because respondents to the crisis suggested it was the result of a culture problem. As they emerged from years of fines, layoffs, and reported losses, American bankers...

... Carter Heath Drake Janine Giordano Marx Karl working class dissent Adler Felix Coffin Henry Sloane Ethical Culture movement Goldman Julius Protestantism financialization of everyday life Mandel Michael J Martin Randy Nelson Robert H risk taking Aquinas Thomas Luther Martin Borges Jorge...

... of the industries from which they hail. In particular, regulators from the asset-management industry appear to be behind the rise in fair-value accounting rules, perhaps because such rules enhance compensation levels in the industry. The evidence points to the potential “financialization” of the FASB as the asset...

... by financial deregulation, which precipitated the 20th Century’s largest corporate merger movement. Corporations headquartered elsewhere acquired local businesses, thinning the ranks of traditional business and union leaders. Concurrently, federal bureaucracies responsible for social service and urban...

... made by the financial sector to thwart demands for justice in turbulent times, and elicit government guarantees of the value of the securities used to collateralize private credit markets. After this occurred in 2008, prominent financial macroeconomists have used options theory to value the premium...

... (and its value). This is not the case, however, in his crucial concept of “relative surplus” value, where producer goods do double duty as means of production and as investment vehicles (financial assets) that offer arbitrage opportunities to investors in labor-saving technology. It is the sudden...

...The view that a pro-justice politics can be funded by financial markets through options is here considered in the context of other funding approaches. These include financing a larger public sector through taxation and government debt, and Minsky’s proposal to nationalize financial markets in order...

...Speculative Communities examines the ways that speculation has moved beyond financial markets to shape fundamental aspects of our social and political lives. The book shows that even our methods of building community and pursuing intimacy have shifted to the speculative realm as social media...