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- Title
Financialisation as the development of fictitious capital in developing and developed economies.
- Authors
Mollo, Maria de Lourdes Rollemberg; Dourado, Fernando Fellows; Paraná, Edemilson
- Abstract
In this paper, we discuss financialisation as the development of fictitious capital in more developed and less developed countries. The controversies surrounding the meaning of fictitious capital require a preliminary discussion on its conceptual definition, which is done by means of an analysis of the relationship between real and fictitious capital within the labour theory of value. Once theoretically explained why the relative autonomy of circulation from production supports financialisation as the development of fictitious capital, we focus on the limits of this relative autonomy, which is something objectified in economic crises. Relevant data were gathered to determine how the concentration of financial investments in fictitious capital in a few markets was able to underpin its enormous and lasting development, even though this fictitious capital, by definition, does not generate surplus or new (labour) value. Furthermore, the analysis of net capital flows between developed and developing countries also demonstrates that the latter are net donors of capital. Therefore, it is possible to verify the relationship between the development of fictitious capital and the increase of inequality between countries.
- Subjects
FINANCIALIZATION; DEVELOPING countries; FINANCIAL crises; CAPITAL movements
- Publication
Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2022, Vol 46, Issue 5, p955
- ISSN
0309-166X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/cje/beac041