Abstract

In the wake of the global financial crisis of 2007–09, political economists have typically identified and interrogated speculative logics and credit-debt relations as the markers of financialized capitalism. This paper argues that assets, and the contingent processes which turn all manner of things into assets (i.e. ‘assetization’), can also be usefully foregrounded to understand the character and movement of financialized capitalism in the contemporary conjuncture, particularly in its Anglo-American heartlands. Centred on assets and assetization, research is refocused on the constitution of political economies of rent and investment, especially as the frontiers of financialized capitalism are extended to further incorporate nature and society. Research into financialized capitalism is also connected more explicitly to wider political debates over intensified inequalities, as the production and distribution of assets is key to wealth disparities and shapes fundamental stratifications across society.

摘要

在2007-09年全球金融危机之后，政治经济学家通常将投机逻辑和信贷债务关系确定和审讯为金融化资本主义的标志。本文认为，资产以及将各种事物转变为资产的偶然过程（即“资产化”），也可以用来理解当代社会，尤其是英美金融化资本主义的特征和运动。心脏地带。围绕资产和资产化，研究重新集中于租金和投资的政治经济构成，特别是在金融化资本主义的疆界扩展到进一步融合自然和社会的情况下。