Finance and the fourth dimension

By Robin Blackburn. 2006

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Financializing space, spacing financialization (2011, background): “In a recent review of the phenomenon, Blackburn (2006) argues that financialization ‘can most simply be defined as the growing and systemic power of finance and financial engineering’ (page 39).”
Integrating Finance into Global Production Networks (2014, background): “Existing studies range from how the finance sector dominates national political economies (BLACKBURN, 2006; DORE, 2008), to how firm strategies and management are increasingly beholden to the logics of finance (WILLIAMS, 2000; FROUD et al., 2002a, 2002b; KRIPPNER, 2005; HO, 2009), and the ways in…”
Financialization and Changes in the Social Relations along Commodity Chains: The Case of Coffee (2009, background): “For Blackburn, “the use of derivatives in contemporary financialisation aims at short-term gains that short-circuit flows of production and trade, garnering an immediate profit at the expense of what might have been long-term social surplus” (Blackburn 2006: 67). Leyshon and Thrift (2007) examine wh”
The Capitalization of Almost Everything (2007, background): “Combined, they make economic life riskier and more perilous (Schiller, 2003), not least by expanding ‘a domain of delusion and chicanery’ (Blackburn, 2006, page 66).”
Financialization and the Consumer Credit Boom (2008, unknown): “…denotes the tendency toward the growth in the speculative issue and trading of all manner of financial market instruments and ownership claims (Amin 1996; Blackburn 2006; Boyer 2000; Brenner 2002; Duménil & Lévy 2004; Epstein & Jayadev 2005; Froud et al. 2001, 2002; Henwood 2003; Krippner 2005).”
Sub-prime mortgage lending: a cultural economy (2008, background): “There is clearly a sense in which the representation of financial economies through risk calculations makes possible the accumulation of profits in the present by colonizing the future (Blackburn, 2006).”
Powerful City Networks: More than Connections, Less than Domination and Control (2010, background): “…acting together for their mutual benefit may still work to the disadvantage of others less well positioned to shift resources in their favour (Blackburn, 2006); that is, those who have to pay excessive road-toll fees or high utility costs In accounts of intermediaries brokering and bridging…”
Implications of Financial Capitalism for Employment Relations Research: Evidence from Breach of Trust and Implicit Contracts in Private Equity Buyouts (2013, background): “From their perspective, the firm represents a disposable bundle of assets that should be rearranged to improve shareholder value irrespective of the outcomes for individual plants, firms, suppliers, workers or local economies (Blackburn 2006: 42).”