financialization
UK/fʌɪˌnanʃl̩ʌɪˈzeɪʃn̩/
financialization noun: conversion of intangible value into financial instruments.
Noun
financialization (uncountable)
- Conversion of intangible value into financial instruments.
- Such growth would be fine if financialization really delivered on its promises—if financial firms made money by directing capital to its most productive uses, by developing innovative ways to spread and reduce risk.2009 July 17, Paul Krugman, “The Joy of Sachs”, in New York Times
- This book is a contribution to efforts to retheorize financialization, a term which refers to the increased power of the financial sector in the economy, in politics, in social life and in culture writ large.2014, M. Haiven, Cultures of Financialization: Fictitious Capital in Popular Culture and Everyday Life, Springer, →ISBN, page 1
- The act of making, or treating as, financial; bringing something into the sphere of finance.
financialization meaning in Vietnamese
financialization in Vietnamese
- conversion of intangible value into financial instruments
- tài chính hoá
Examples of financialization in a sentence
- First, it is necessary to be explicit about what I am not asserting: specifically, that financialization represents an entirely novel phase of capitalism.2014, J. Timmons Roberts, Amy Bellone Hite, Nitsan Chorev, The Globalization and Development Reader: Perspectives on Development and Global...
- The primary complaint leveled against the financialization of economies is that much of this activity is geared towards rent seeking.2015, Martin Ford, The Rise of the Robots, Oneworld Publications:
- In recent decades, America has experienced the financialization of its economy.2019 August 14, Matthew Desmond, “In order to understand the brutality of American capitalism, you have to start on the plantation”, in New...
Forms of financialization
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Origin of financialization
From financialize + -ation.
Questions about financialization
- What does financialization mean?
- Financialization means conversion of intangible value into financial instruments.
- What is financialization in Vietnamese?
- Financialization in Vietnamese is tài chính hoá. See Financialization meaning in Vietnamese.
- How do you use financialization in a sentence?
- First, it is necessary to be explicit about what I am not asserting: specifically, that financialization represents an entirely novel phase of capitalism.
- What part of speech is financialization?
- Financialization is a noun.
- How do you pronounce financialization?
- Financialization is pronounced /fʌɪˌnanʃl̩ʌɪˈzeɪʃn̩/ (UK).
Words near financialization in the dictionary
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