TY - BOOK AU - Erturk,Ismail TI - Financialization at work: key texts and commentary SN - 9780415417310 (pbk.) : U1 - 332 22 PY - 2008/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - Finance KW - Handbooks, manuals, etc KW - Financial services industry KW - Industrial management KW - bicssc KW - Finance and Accounting KW - eflch N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Undergraduate N2 - Social scientists began debating financialization in the late 2000s much as they debated globalization in the 1990s. This book prepares the way by allowing readers to (re)define financialization for themselves. It challenges the readers to bring a fresh understanding to the financialization of capitalism. Crisis with US sub-prime mortgages, paralysis in global credit markets and the run on Northern Rock - all wake-up calls to the growing influence of finance and financial markets on the lives of ordinary people. Social scientists began debating financialization in the late 2000s much as they debated globalisation in the 1990s, and this important book prepares the way by allowing readers to (re)define financialization for themselves. ER -