Joseph Vogl: The Ascendancy of Finance [2017] paperback MYTHS truthfulness and readability - the

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Joseph Vogl: The Ascendancy of Finance [2017] paperback MYTHS truthfulness and readability - theThe global financial crisis of 2008 ushered in a system of informal decision making in the grey zone between economics and politics. Legitimized by a rhetoric of emergency, ad hoc bodies have usurped democratically elected governments. In line with the neoliberal credo, the recent crisis has been used to realize the politically impossible and to re align executive power with the interests of the finance industry. In this important book, Joseph Vogl