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Historical Precedents, Contemporary Manifestations

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  • Thomas Marois

    (SOAS, University of London, London, UK)

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Mexican society has experienced three costly finance-related crises in 1982, 1994-95, and 2008-09. In each case the continuity of capitalist development depended in large part on state authorities drawing the worst financial risks into the state apparatus, that is, on socialization. While most understandings of socialization remain at a largely technical understanding, I argue that the socialization of financial risk in Mexico rests on distinctively class-based material and institutional processes. The processes of socialization have been historically constitutive of neoliberalism and the current phase of financial accumulation in Mexico.

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  • Thomas Marois, 2014. "Historical Precedents, Contemporary Manifestations," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 46(3), pages 308-330, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:reorpe:v:46:y:2014:i:3:p:308-330
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    • G01 - Financial Economics - - General - - - Financial Crises
    • G28 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Government Policy and Regulation
    • P16 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - Capitalist Institutions; Welfare State

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