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Critical macro-finance: A theoretical lens

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2023

Daniela Gabor
Daniela Gabor*
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University of the West of England, UK
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Corresponding author: Daniela Gabor, University ofthe West of England, Frenchay Campus, Coldharbour Lane, Bristol, BS16 1QY, UK.Email: daniela.gabor@uwe.ac.uk.
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This forum contribution outlines four propositions of the critical macro-finance approach: (1) US-led financial globalization has structurally evolved around market-based finance, driven by the production of new asset classes and the Americanization of national financial systems with changing practices for producing liquidity; (2) global finance is a set of interconnected, hierarchical balance sheets, increasingly subject to time-critical liquidity; (3) credit creation in market-based finance involves new forms of money (systemic liabilities); and (4) market-based finance structurally requires a derisking state, for both systemic liabilities and for new asset classes. The precise contours of the derisking state are determined through political struggles.

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Finance and Society , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , 2020 , pp. 45 - 55
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