Lab: Financialization

Financialization is one of the most important event of the past 50 years due to its huge impact on our societies: operating transnationally, thus limiting the ability of governments to act, and also affecting people's daily lives.
Financialization is a multidisciplinary topic involving economics, finance, sociology and history. The course will combine all these different perspectives to connect them and offer a broad picture of the complex phenomenon.

At the end of the course, students are expected to be able to understand and evaluate:
- Historical and practical analysis of the great social and cultural economic change that occurred in the 1970s and 1980s
- Trend and growth of private wealth and its distribution
- Explanation of how banks became creators of money and thus allowed the explosion of "leverage," which is the fundamental tool that enabled the great growth of financialization
- An analysis of the "wealth divide," a phenomenon that has been little explored and instead underlies the current development of inequality
- A strong focus on the impact of financialization on all aspects of human life