Financialization and financial profit

This article starts from the critical review of the concept of financial capital. I consider it is necessary not to confuse this category with of financialization, which has acquired a certificate of naturalization from the rise of neoliberalism. Although financial monopoly-financial capital is the...

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Autor: Guillén, Arturo
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:Brasil
Recursos:EDITORA 34
Repositorio:Revista de Economia Política
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs2.centrodeeconomiapolitica.org:article/282
Acesso em linha:https://centrodeeconomiapolitica.org.br/repojs/index.php/journal/article/view/282
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:financial capital
financialisation
financial profit
Hilferding-promoter’s profit
capital financeiro
financeirização
lucro financeiro
ganhos do fundador Hilferding
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Resumo:This article starts from the critical review of the concept of financial capital. I consider it is necessary not to confuse this category with of financialization, which has acquired a certificate of naturalization from the rise of neoliberalism. Although financial monopoly-financial capital is the hegemonic segment of the bourgeoisie in the major capitalist countries, their dominance does not imply, a fortiori, financialization of economic activity, since it depends of the conditions of the process reproduction of capital. The emergence of joint stock companies modified the formation of the average rate of profit. The "promoter profit" becomes one of the main forms of income of monopoly-financial capital. It is postulated that financial profit is a kind of "extraordinary surplus-value" which is appropriated by monopoly-financial capital by means of the monopolistic control it exerts on the issue and circulation of fictitious capital.  JEL Classification: E44.