Disembedded: Regulation, Crisis, and Democracy in the Age of Finance

During the last two decades, there has been much scholarly and popular interest in the financialization of the American economy-why the turn to finance has taken place, what constituted it, and what has come out of it. In Disembedded, Basak Kus draws from the theories of Karl Polanyi-one of the greatest and most influential political economists of the twentieth century-to answer these questions. Focused primarily on the state's regulatory role in a dominantly financialized economy, Kus exam...