[URPE] CFP: Special Issue of the RRPE: THE FINANCIALIZATION OF GLOBAL CAPITALISM

[Enid Arvidson]

CFP: Special Issue of the

Review of Radical Political Economics
http://www.urpe.org/rrpesi_6.html

THE FINANCIALIZATION OF GLOBAL CAPITALISM: ANALYSIS, CRITIQUES, AND 
ALTERNATIVES

We are seeking paper submissions for a special issue of the Review of 
Radical Political Economics that address the role of finance capital in 
the era of globalization. We are interested in papers on the following 
general themes: a) the rise to power of finance capitalists; b) how the 
resulting changes in the balance of power between social classes 
impacts the laws of motion of capitalism with particular emphasis on 
accumulation and crises; c) the (in)compatibility of the 
goals/objectives of finance capitalists with those of industrial 
capitalists, particularly in a period of increased international 
competition; d) the impact of any finance-induced macroeconomic changes 
on labor and the environment; e) the financialization of productive 
capital, and f) the influence of finance capitalists on domestic and 
foreign policy formation.


Examples of specific topics of interest that would be welcomed include:

1) The impact of the increased power of owners, investors, and their 
financial intermediaries on real investment and growth.

2) On the micro level, the rise to power of financial executives within 
the corporation and their impact on corporate governance and strategic 
decision making.

3) The role of the ascendant financial sector in generating increased 
inequality; the role of finance in causing generalized wage repression, 
reduction, and elimination of private pension benefits, and increased 
debtor defaults.

4) The increased role of finance in government and central banking 
institutions, especially with regard to interest rate policies and the 
gutting of social safety nets in the form of social wages and social 
security.

5) General analysis of the role of the new “global finance capital,” 
and especially its center, in fostering neo-imperialist policies 
including the impact of the new financialization on military and 
security spending.

6) Finance and the “new rentier capitalism” as it effects dividend 
payouts, stock market and real estate bubbles.

7) The role of finance in fostering non-sustainable production of 
commodifiable consumer goods and long-term environmental destruction.

8) The effect of the new “privatization of risk” that has been promoted 
and implemented by global and national financial sectors and the effect 
of this on macroeconomic instability, recessions, and “accumulation by 
dispossession.”

9) The new resurgent power of finance: a viable resurgence of 
capitalist class power or a destructive rentier restoration that will 
ultimately undermine global capitalism.

Please send four copies of submissions for the special issue by 
December 2007 to:
Hazel Dayton Gunn, Managing Editor
Review of Radical Political Economics
Department of City and Regional Planning
106 W. Sibley Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
(phone: 315/789-1414; e-mail: hg18 at cornell.edu)

Submissions must follow the instructions to contributors listed in the 
back of the journal and available on our website: 
http://www.urpe.org/rrpesubm.html. All submissions are subject to the 
RRPE’s usual review procedures.
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