Neoliberal Europeanisation, Variegated Financialisation: common but divergent economic trajectories in the Netherlands, United Kingdom and Germany

Revisiting attempts to connect comparative political economy and the geographies of finance, we present a balance sheet analysis of financialisation in the UK, the Netherlands, and Germany from 1992–2012. We define financialisation broadly as a trend towards a greater reliance on assets and/or debt, with particular manifestations across different domains of the economy: a greater reliance on financial tools and metrics for the state and non‐financial corporations, a shift to market‐based banking and increasing dependence on credit or asset‐based welfare for households. We use OECD time‐series... Mehr ...