Machine generated contents note: 1.The parasitic absentee owner in the Keynes-Veblen-Proudhon tradition -- 2.Ricardian Marxism and finance as unproductive activity -- 3.Is finance productive or "parasitic?" -- 4.Derivatives as money? -- 5.Finance, discipline, and social behavior: tracing the terms of a problem that was never properly stated -- 6.Episodes in finance -- 7.Fictitious capital and finance: an introduction to Marx's analysis (in the third volume of Capital) -- 8.Financialization as a technology of power: incorporating risk into the Marxian framework -- 9.Towards a political economy of monetary unions: revisiting the crisis of the Euro area -- 10.European governance and its contradictions.