An heterodox explanation of the global financial crisis

The objective of the article is to study some aspects of the world financial crisis, considered as part of a process that turned out to be favorable for the consolidation of the Anglo-Saxon banking hegemony, based on the expansion of the financing of social life. This was possible due to the decreas...

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Autor: Vite Pérez, Miguel Ángel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD DE GUADALAJARA
Repositorio:Espiral Estudios sobre Estado y Sociedad
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:espiral.cucsh.udg.mx:article/460
Acceso en línea:http://espiral.cucsh.udg.mx/index.php/EEES/article/view/460
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Problematización
dispositivo
especulación financiera
vulnerabilidad laboral
acumulación por desposesión
Problematization
device
financial speculation
labor vulnerability
accumulation by dispossession
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Sumario:The objective of the article is to study some aspects of the world financial crisis, considered as part of a process that turned out to be favorable for the consolidation of the Anglo-Saxon banking hegemony, based on the expansion of the financing of social life. This was possible due to the decrease in the income of the waged workers, reflected in their low consumption. However, in order to increase their consumption, the credit and insolvency risk was increased because the loans did not have as a basis the consumers’ actual payment capacity.