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Vital Signs: swaps, options and other derivatives aren't just for the financial elite

  • Written by Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW
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One of the biggest trends in economics over the past 40 years has been so-called “financialisation” – whereby an increasing proportion of GDP in advanced economies comes from the financial sector.

This has involved the development of ever more sophisticated “financial instruments” such...

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