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financialization

noun
/fʌɪˌnanʃl̩ʌɪˈzeɪʃn̩/UK

Etymology

From financialize + -ation.

  1. derived from fīnis
  2. derived from finance
  3. inherited from finaunce
  4. formed as financial — “finance + -ial”
  5. suffixed as financialize — “financial + ize”
  6. suffixed as financialization — “financialize + ation”

Definitions

  1. 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.
    • 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.
    • First, it is necessary to be explicit about what I am not asserting: specifically, that financialization represents an entirely novel phase of capitalism.

  2. The act of making, or treating as, financial

    The act of making, or treating as, financial; bringing something into the sphere of finance.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA