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SUMMARY:Financialisation\,  Assetisation or  Rentiership? A Comparative An
 alysis of Capital Accumulation Strategies in the Pharmaceutical and Diagno
 stics Industries. - Professor Stuart Hogarth\, Professor Sarah Franklin\, 
 Luke Hawksbee. All speakers are from the Department of Sociology\, Univers
 ity of Cambridge 
DTSTART:20221129T123000Z
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CONTACT:Abigail Youngman
DESCRIPTION:Research conducted over the last two decades has identified fi
 nancialisation as a defining feature of the global political economy in th
 e neoliberal era. The growing power of financial actors to shape the behav
 iour of non-financial firms\; the reconceptualization of the firm as a bun
 dle of assets\; and an increasing focus on exploiting intangible assets\, 
 in particular intellectual property rights\, has led to what many deem to 
 be a new era of “rentier capitalism”. \n\nThis seminar will present wo
 rk discussing the applicability of these concepts and exploring how financ
 ial and institutional contexts shape the business strategies of diagnostic
 s firms and ‘big pharma’ on either side of the Atlantic.\n\nThis is th
 e last in this term's Sociology Seminar Series\, please find details of al
 l events here: https://www.sociology.cam.ac.uk/files/sem_series_correct_mi
 ch.pdf
LOCATION:Lecture Block Room 6\, Sidgwick Site\, Sidgwick Avenue\, Cambridg
 e 
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