Financial language simultaneously reflects and advances the spread of financialization.

Evidence

But it is also a key means by which that saturation is advanced, the way financial modes of thinking and understanding are stitched into and throughout the social fabric. This cultural and linguistic shift both reveals and advances a broader socio-economic reality of financialization. — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 69

Categorization

  • XREF: This two-way constitutive claim is the core mechanism that deWaard’s cultural argument likely builds on. — connects to: Financial language now reshapes public policy domains historically governed by other values. — Ève Chiapello, Financialisation of Valuation, 93; Conversation itself is the instrument of global interbank exchange. — Karin Knorr Cetina & Urs Bruegger, Global Microstructures: The Virtual…, 102; Financialization colonizes culture through diffuse metaphors, narratives, and techniques — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 35 (+8 more)

Broader Connections