Financialization involves new forms of state intervention, not state retreat.

Evidence

What we have witnessed over the past few decades is therefore not the retreat of the state at the behest of the market, but rather the emergence of an altogether different type of state intervention. Crouch (2009, 2011) has coined the term ‘privatized Keynesianism’ to describe the Anglo-American policy regime in which citizens, not governments, take on debt to stimulate the economy. — Natascha van der Zwan, Making Sense of Financialization, 97

Categorization

  • DEFINE: Defines ‘privatized Keynesianism’ — citizens taking on debt to stimulate the economy rather than governments.
  • corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Natascha van der Zwan, Making Sense of Financialization, 97
  • XREF: connects to: Financialization is a political project tied to US hegemony, not a market efficiency outcome. — Natascha van der Zwan, Making Sense of Financialization, 35; Financialization is integral to capitalism, not a product of deregulatory excess — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 34

Broader Connections