Assetization remains an unrecognized analytical entry point in financialization research

Evidence

As financialization research has settled into interrogating the political economies of speculation and credit-debt relations, assets and assetization have not been identified as a further and specific analytical point of entry. — Paul Langley, Assets and Assetization in…, 18

Categorization

• XREF: This frames the book’s contribution against the two dominant financialization streams — speculation and credit-debt — aligning with the advanced finance reading purpose on assetization. — connects to: Analyzing bio-economy value requires focusing on assets rather than commodities — Kean Birch, Rethinking Value in the Bio-economy:…, 68; Financialization has competing explanations from three distinct scholarly disciplines. — Gerald F. Davis & Suntae Kim, Financialization of the Economy, 30; The financialization literature lacks a unified definition across four competing usages — Greta R. Krippner, The Financialization of the American…, 41 (+3 more)

Related

• Financialization research’s focus on speculation and debt created a blind spot for assets. (similarity 0.90)
• Assetization constitutes a distinct logic of investment irreducible to speculation or rentiership (similarity 0.88)
• Assetization better captures financialized capitalism than commodification or marketization concepts. (similarity 0.88)
• Assetization supersedes commodification and marketization as the key analysis of financialized capitalism. (similarity 0.87)
• Understanding value as assetization requires analyzing political economy, not just applying STS to finance. (similarity 0.84)
• Assetization analysis reveals how nature and society get incorporated into financialized capitalism. (similarity 0.84)
• Financialization scholarship spans three approaches with distinct analytic foci. (similarity 0.83)
• Financialization has competing explanations from three distinct scholarly disciplines. (similarity 0.82)
• Financialization is how society gets liquidated into marketable commodities (similarity 0.82)
• The financialization literature lacks a unified definition across four competing usages (similarity 0.81)
• Asset value derives from future earnings rather than intrinsic commodity value (similarity 0.81)
• Analyzing bio-economy value requires focusing on assets rather than commodities (similarity 0.81)
• Assets differ from both exchangeable commodities and simple rental property. (similarity 0.81)
• Scholars asserted financialization’s existence without providing direct evidence (similarity 0.80)
• Value in the bio-economy is produced through valuation practices, not intrinsic to biological matter. (similarity 0.80)