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Finance --- International finance --- Financialization. --- Financialisation --- Financialized capitalism --- Capitalism --- Finances.

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Doyenne des sociétés immobilières du Second Empire (antérieure même aux sociétés parisiennes), la Société de la rue Impériale (SRI) offre la possibilité de restituer plus de 150 ans de gestion immobilière d’un bâti « haussmannien » dans la principale artère d’une grande ville, Lyon. De sa création (1854) à sa disparition (2004), la SRI n’a cessé de placer la gestion des immeubles au centre de ses activités. Cette longévité exceptionnelle tranche avec les durées éphémères des sociétés immobilières nées dans la foulée des politiques de grands travaux au XIXe siècle. Tout au long de son existence, la détention d'un patrimoine immobilier d'exception lui a assuré une rente sur laquelle elle a assis son expansion. Elle bascule progressivement dans une logique financière à la fin des années 1960 à la suite d’une prise de contrôle par le milieu bancaire des grosses sociétés immobilières. Le rachat de la SRI par le fonds souverain d’Abu Dhabi achève le processus de financiarisation d’une des pièces les plus prestigieuses de l’immobilier lyonnais. Nourrie par des archives exceptionnelles, l’histoire de cette société immobilière permet de retracer, dans le temps long, les transformations des espaces urbains et de mieux comprendre le rôle du capital financier dans la production de la ville. Elle constitue de ce fait une approche originale de l’imbrication de l’économique et de l’urbain. The « Société de la rue Impériale » (SRI) is the oldest of the real estate companies created in the 2nd Empire. The company built, owned and managed most of the buildings along the rue de la République in Lyon. SRI Archives tell us a 150 years long story of real estate management and investment in the center of Lyon. From 1854 to 2007, the SRI evolved in parallel with urban changes and population transformation. This longevity is unique amongst real estate companies of the 19th Century. Local shareholders ran the SRI until it fell under the control of national banking firms at the end of the…

Urban Studies --- History --- Economics (General) --- société immobilière --- rente --- financiarisation --- Lyon --- XIX-XXe siècle --- real estate companie --- rent --- financialisation --- 19-20th century

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The book analyzes the financialization of the Brazilian territory to identify its main actors, technical systems and processes. The work is divided into three parts, which correspond to the three main scales of analysis of the national financial system: 1. the global scale, which defines the relative position of Brazil in the international division of financial work, emphasizing the role of São Paulo as an international financial centre; 2 the national level, which demonstrates the recent development of the financial and banking system (after 1964), with emphasis on the location and regionalization of bank headquarters and branches, as well as the new electronic channels for the provision of banking services (ATMs, points-of-sales, mobile and Internet banking); and 3. the local scale, which shows how these new financial agents and technical systems affect the Brazilian urban population, emphasizing the indebtedness of the lower income classes, as well as the emergence of alternative ways of using finance, such as fintechs, credit cooperatives and community banks.

Economic geography. --- Macroeconomics. --- Area studies. --- Economic Geography. --- Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics. --- Area Studies. --- Area research --- Foreign area studies --- Education --- Research --- Geography --- Economics --- Geography, Economic --- World economics --- Commercial geography --- Study and teaching --- Financialization --- Financialisation --- Financialized capitalism --- Capitalism --- Finance

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The tension between innovation and financialisation is central to the business corporation. Innovation entails a 'retain-and-reinvest' allocation regime that can form a foundation for stable and equitable economic growth. Driven by shareholder-value ideology, financialisation entails a shift to 'downsize-and-distribute'. This Element investigates this tension in global pharmaceuticals, focusing on the two leading UK companies AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline. In the 2000s both adopted US-style governance, including stock buybacks and stock-based executive pay. Over the past decade, however, first AstraZeneca and then GlaxoSmithKline transitioned to innovation. Critical was the cessation of buybacks to refocus capabilities on investing in an innovative drugs pipeline. Enabling this shift were UK corporate-governance institutions that mitigated US-style shareholder-value maximisation. Reinventing capitalism for the sake of stable and equitable economic growth means eliminating value destruction caused by financialisation and supporting value creation through collective and cumulative innovation. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Drugs --- Financialization --- Pharmaceutical industry --- Prices --- Financialisation --- Financialized capitalism --- Capitalism --- Finance --- Medicaments --- Medications --- Medicine (Drugs) --- Medicines (Drugs) --- Pharmaceuticals --- Prescription drugs --- Bioactive compounds --- Medical supplies --- Pharmacopoeias --- Chemotherapy --- Materia medica --- Pharmacology --- Pharmacy --- Biotechnology industry --- Finance. --- AstraZeneca (Firm) --- GlaxoSmithKline --- Biotechnology industries

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This book focuses on the subjectivities of stock market investors to explore tensions within the Chinese state’s engagement in contemporary financial capitalism. The book adopts a genealogical method to investigate how the production of foreign-trained financial experts (haigui) and informal experts (sanhu) points to paradoxes in China’s efforts to cultivate financial expertise. Chinese financialisation relates to the state’s project of financialising human capital in reaction to a contractualised labour market and the vanishing welfare state. Through ethnographic inquiry, Dal Maso shows the Chinese stock markets are crucial to the new redistributive regime where wage labour risks losing its primacy. Here, one can observe how the relationship between money and wages in China is being reworked and witness the development of a new economic order in which the state’s legitimacy becomes increasingly dependent on its capacity to jiushi–to rescue the market in times of crisis. Giulia Dal Maso is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bologna. Her research examines historical and contemporary dimensions of financialisation. She has published in South Atlantic Quarterly, Historical Materialism, Social and Cultural Geography and Journal of Cultural Economy.

Economic sociology. --- Ethnology. --- Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology. --- Social Anthropology. --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Economic sociology --- Economics --- Socio-economics --- Socioeconomics --- Sociology of economics --- Sociology --- Social aspects --- Financialization --- Stock exchanges --- China --- Economic conditions. --- Financialisation --- Financialized capitalism --- Capitalism --- Finance