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Finance: Servant or Deceiver? Financialization at the Crossroads, by Paul H. Dembinski Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Hardcover, 176 pp. ISBN-13: 978-0230220379.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2015

John R. Boatright
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Business Ethics Quarterly , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , July 2009 , pp. 453 - 464
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1. Pages numbers in the text refer to Dembinski, Paul H., Finance: Servant or Deceiver: Financialization at the Crossroads (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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9. See Palley, “Financialization,” 21–23.