Articles by Ramaa Vasudevan

An exploration of the roots of the current credit crisis in the process of financialisation, where profit-making occurs increasingly through financial channels rather than through trade and commodity production. This process and the explosion of private financial flows globally helped the United States preserve and establish its pivotal place at the centre of the international financial markets after the collapse of the Bretton Woods arrangements in 1973. It argues that the mechanisms that helped sustain growing global imbalances and preserve the role of the dollar as international money are under threat in the current crisis.