Disembedded: Regulation, Crisis, and Democracy in the Age of Finance

by Basak Kus

During the last two decades, there has been much scholarly and popular interest in the financialization of the American economy--why the turn to finance has taken place, what constituted it, and what has come out of it. In Disembedded, Basak Kus draws from the theories of Karl Polanyi--one of the greatest and most influential political economists of the twentieth century--to answer these questions. Focused primarily on the state's regulatory role...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019776486X
• ISBN13: 9780197764862
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.6"