The Capitalization of Almost Everything

By Andrew Leyshon, Nigel Thrift. 2007

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Finance

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Andrew Leyshon
2. Desiree Fields
3. S. French
4. T. Wainwright
5. Paul A. Langley
6. J. Montgomerie
7. Kean Birch
8. E. Mawdsley

In Finance

1. J. Montgomerie
2. Desiree Fields
3. Sarah Hall
4. Paul A. Langley
5. Andrew Leyshon
6. S. French
7. T. Wainwright
8. E. Mawdsley

Citations in the corpus

• Financialization and Changes in the Social Relations along Commodity Chains: The Case of Coffee (2009, background): “Leyshon and Thrift (2007) examine what they refer to as “new” forms of accumulation in the context of the current financial structure.”
• The Pursuit of (Past) Happiness? Middle-class Indebtedness and American Financialisation (2009, background): “In their recent article ‘The capitalization of almost everything’, Andrew Leyshon and Nigel Thrift argue that the bedrock of financial capitalism is not the spectacular system of speculation but the growing dependence on the construction of new asset streams from stable sources of income.(12) Drawin”
• Constructing a New Asset Class: Property-led Financial Accumulation after the Crisis (2018, background): “Datafication thus aids the process of meaningfully “aggregating hitherto unsuspecting geographies,” a coalescence that makes new financial asset classes possible (Leyshon and Thrift 2007, 109).”
• Automated landlord: Digital technologies and post-crisis financial accumulation (2019, background): “Indeed, financial assets are only viable insofar as they assemble together a group of oftendispersed and fragmented income streams, nonetheless understood to be similar: they depend on bundling and commensurability (Leyshon and Thrift, 2007; Martin, 2013).”
• Development geography II (2018, background): “Leyshon and Thrift (2007) demonstrate how the expansion of financial capitalism requires the ‘work’ of transforming mundane objects into assets for speculation.”
• The limits to financialization (2015, unknown): “Is, in short, (complete) financialization (of everything) inevitable (cf. Leyshon and Thrift, 2007)?”
• Assets and assetization in financialized capitalism (2020, background): “As Leyshon and Thrift (2007) put it, ‘the rush to focus on the spectacular performances of speculative capital’ leads the ‘more mundane’ and ‘quotidian asset bases’ of financialized capitalism to be overlooked (pp. 98–9).”
• Financializing space, spacing financialization (2011, background): “…the growth of coupon poll capitalism and to be able to take out a mortgage, with their monthly repayments being packaged up to form the income streams of RMBS (many of which may be held indirectly by such individuals as part of pension funds or other savings vehicles) (Leyshon and Thrift 2007).”
• A very geographical crisis: the making and breaking of the 2007–2008 financial crisis (2009, background): “…be used in long-term productive growth, whereas in truth in recent years the power of the financial system has enabled it to see the rest of the economy as a repository of assets that can be acquired, sweated and leveraged to generate income streams (Leyshon and Thrift, 2007; Erturk et al. 2008).”