Financialization

Quick meaning: Financialization is a noun meaning (economics) Conversion of intangible value into financial instruments.

Meaning

(economics) Conversion of intangible value into financial instruments.

More Meanings

1. The act of making, or treating as, financial; bringing something into the sphere of finance.

Example Sentences

The primary complaint leveled against the financialization of economies is that much of this activity is geared towards rent seeking.

First, it is necessary to be explicit about what I am not asserting: specifically, that financialization represents an entirely novel phase of capitalism.

This book is a contribution to efforts to retheorize financialization, a term which refers to the increased power of the financial sector in the economy, in politics, in social life and in culture writ large.

Such growth would be fine if financialization really delivered on its promises—if financial firms made money by directing capital to its most productive uses, by developing innovative ways to spread and reduce risk.

Word Forms

• financialisation

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include securitization, dematerialization, monetization, issue, monetarization, valuation.

Related Dictionary Tools