Financialisation Round Table Discussions

IIPPE FINANCIALISATION WORKING GROUP

Round Table Discussion Series

At the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

(Nearest Underground: Russell Square)

• 27^th November 2014.

(SOAS Main Building, Room: 273. Time: 17:00 – 19:00)

Ben Fine on “Financialisation from a Marxist perspective”.

Reading: Fine, B (2013-14) “Financialisation From a Marxist Perspective”. In:  International Journal of Political Economy, vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 5–18.

• 20^th January 2014.

 (SOAS Main Building, Room: RS T102. Time: 17:00 – 19:00)

Thomas Marois on “Financialisation, state theory, class, and alternatives to financial capitalism”

Readings: Marois, T (2012) “Finance, finance capital and financialization”. In: Fine, B., Saad-Filho, A., Boffo, M. (2012) The Elgar Companion to Marxist Economics. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, UK • Northampton, MA, USA.

Marois, T. (2014) ‘Banking on Alternatives’. In: Marois, T. and Pradella, L. (2014) (ed.) Polarising Development: Alternatives to Neoliberalism and the Crisis. Pluto Press.