The financial regime

An interesting book about the increasing intertwining of economic and political power that resulted in the financial crisis. For anyone who wants to know how it could get this far. The growing power of private companies in relation to nation states seems to be a recent problem, fueled by ever-growing banks and multinationals. In The Financial Regime, however, Joseph Vogl places this trend in a systematic and historical perspective. An important role is reserved for the Netherlands in this history, where this intertwining of power first came to light, according to Vogl, with the rise of the VOC. In the meantime, more and more new forms of sovereign power are emerging that escape the control of the state. The Financial Regime was nominated for the non-fiction prize of the Leipziger Buchmesse before it was even published.