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Stephen Maher

Stephen Maher
Assistant Professor of Economics at SUNY Cortland
Economy

Is Finance a “Parasite”?

Tracing financial capital—from J. P. Morgan to BlackRock

June 25, 2024 • by Scott Aquanno, Stephen Maher and Anna Pick
Democratizing the state means deepening public control over the Fed and other macroeconomic institutions, to run finance as a public utility....

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