Foreword
Maria de Lourdes Rollemberg Mollo
Preface
Luiz Gonzaga de Mello Belluzzo
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
1 Introduction
1.1 Methodological Considerations
2 Capitalism at the Beginning of the 21st Century: Globalized Finance
2.1 A Brief Review of the Theories of Financialization
2.2 Interest Bearing Capital and Fictitious Capital
2.3 Globalization of Capital: Neoliberalism and Finance-dominated Accumulation Regime
3 Technics, Capital and Society: The Material Bases of Technological Development
3.1 Investigating the Technological Practice from Its Social Content
3.2 Technological Development and Financialization of the Economy: Theoretical Starting Points
4 Digitalized Finance: Informatization at the Service of Financial Dominance
4.1 The State of the Art of Digitalized Finance at the Beginning of the 21st Century
4.2 The Consequences of Digitalization in the Capitals Markets
4.3 Recent Trends: The Next Steps for Digitalized Finance
5 Digitalized Finance in the Brazilian Context
5.1 A Brief Overview of the Technical-Operational Development of the Capitals Market in Brazil
5.2 The Development of ICT and the Transformations of the Brazilian Capitals Market: Elective Affinities
6 Final Considerations
References
Index
