Financialization research’s focus on speculation and debt created a blind spot for assets.
Evidence
As political economists have sharpened their conceptual concerns with speculative logics and credit-debt relations as the ostensible markers of contemporary financialized capitalism, they have tended to overlook assets and assetization. — Paul Langley, Assets and Assetization in…, 15
Categorization
- SEED: An article angle: the conceptual blind spot where financialization scholarship obsesses over speculative logics and credit-debt while ignoring the asset as the actual locus of value.
- XREF: connects to: Assetization remains an unrecognized analytical entry point in financialization research — Paul Langley, Assets and Assetization in…, 18; Assetization constitutes a distinct logic of investment irreducible to speculation or rentiership — Paul Langley, Assets and Assetization in…, 27; Inequality stems significantly from uneven asset ownership, not only elite speculation and household debt — Paul Langley, Assets and Assetization in…, 46
Related
- Assetization remains an unrecognized analytical entry point in financialization research (similarity 0.90)
- Assetization constitutes a distinct logic of investment irreducible to speculation or rentiership (similarity 0.87)
- Assetization better captures financialized capitalism than commodification or marketization concepts. (similarity 0.86)
- Assetization supersedes commodification and marketization as the key analysis of financialized capitalism. (similarity 0.82)
- Inequality stems significantly from uneven asset ownership, not only elite speculation and household debt (similarity 0.82)
- Paul Langley — Assets and Assetization in Financialized Capitalism (similarity 0.80)
- Asset distribution drives wealth inequality and social stratification. (similarity 0.79)
- Assets differ from both exchangeable commodities and simple rental property. (similarity 0.79)
- Assetization analysis reveals how nature and society get incorporated into financialized capitalism. (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Assetization remains an unrecognized analytical entry point in financialization research
#corroborates(0.92) — Paul Langley, Assets and Assetization in…, 18 - Inequality stems significantly from uneven asset ownership, not only elite speculation and household debt
#exemplifies(0.80) — Paul Langley, Assets and Assetization in…, 46 - Assetization constitutes a distinct logic of investment irreducible to speculation or rentiership
#expands(0.75) — Paul Langley, Assets and Assetization in…, 27