Costas Lapavitsas Discusses the Financialization of Capitalism: Book Review and Interview

CJ Polychroniou @ Truthout - The neoliberal capture of the state has laid the ground for the financialization of capitalism, a stage of capitalism that cannot be reversed without developing new methods of public provision in housing, education, health, pensions and the other sources financialization has used to create profit. This is the crux of the argument advanced in Costas Lapavitsas's latest work, Profiting without Producing: How Finance Exploits Us All, recently released by Verso Books.  Read more.