The geographies of social finance: Poverty regulation through the ‘invisible heart’ of markets/
Rosenman, Emily
The geographies of social finance: Poverty regulation through the ‘invisible heart’ of markets/ - Sage, 2019. - Vol 43, issue 1, 2019 : (141-162 p.).
The global financial and anti-poverty industries are embracing an investment philosophy called social finance, which claims that private profit-making can create positive benefits for society. Attempting to resolve the problems of capitalism from within the system, social finance reframes finance as a force for engendering, rather than disrupting, the public good. This article argues that social finance raises theoretical concerns for geographical research on finance, poverty, and neoliberalizing capitalism. I outline a typology of social finance’s forms and propose a geographical research agenda, arguing that social finance practitioners’ simplistic framings of geography belie many other geographies that constitute what is both an emerging financial marketplace and a logic of poverty regulation
capitalism,
economic geography
financialization,
poverty,
social finance,
The geographies of social finance: Poverty regulation through the ‘invisible heart’ of markets/ - Sage, 2019. - Vol 43, issue 1, 2019 : (141-162 p.).
The global financial and anti-poverty industries are embracing an investment philosophy called social finance, which claims that private profit-making can create positive benefits for society. Attempting to resolve the problems of capitalism from within the system, social finance reframes finance as a force for engendering, rather than disrupting, the public good. This article argues that social finance raises theoretical concerns for geographical research on finance, poverty, and neoliberalizing capitalism. I outline a typology of social finance’s forms and propose a geographical research agenda, arguing that social finance practitioners’ simplistic framings of geography belie many other geographies that constitute what is both an emerging financial marketplace and a logic of poverty regulation
capitalism,
economic geography
financialization,
poverty,
social finance,