![]() More generally, individual citizens everywhere are invited to “live by finance”, in Martin’s (2002, p. At the same time, the ‘under-banked’ poor in the developing world have become entangled, or if one wishes, ‘financially included’, in the ‘web’ of global finance through their growing reliance on micro-loans, micro-insurance and M-Pesa-like ‘correspondent banking’ (Keucheyan 2018 Mader 2018). Working people in the advanced economies, for instance, increasingly have their (pension) savings invested in mutual funds and stock markets, while their mortgages and other debts are turned into securities and sold to global financial investors (Krippner 2011 Epstein 2018). Ours is, without a doubt, the age of finance-of the supremacy of financial actors, institutions, markets, and motives in the global capitalist economy. ![]()
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