caa a22 4500 445822481 CHVBK 20180317145248.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11186-011-9146-4 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11186-011-9146-4 Polillo Simone Department of Sociology, University of Virginia, P.O. Box400766, 22904-4766, Charlottesville, VA, USA aut Wildcats in banking fields: the politics of financial inclusion [Elektronische Daten] [Simone Polillo] Rightwing theorists argue that we owe the current financial crisis to the democratization of credit, or financial inclusion: politics interfered with the market to benefit marginalized actors, only to cause instability and risk. Leftwing theorists focus instead on financialization: namely, the shift of profit-making activities from industry to finance. These views implicitly draw on Schumpeter and Marx. Much like their intellectual progenitors, they emphasize exogenous processes to explain financial change. Here I claim that the connection between financial innovation and financial inclusion is endogenous. I suggest two main typologies of financial innovators: Market Utopians (MUs) and Populist Innovators (PIs). Financial inclusion, I submit, is the byproduct of the quest for power of the latter. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2011 Financial innovation nationallicence Conflict nationallicence Prestige nationallicence Networks nationallicence Field-analysis nationallicence Theory and Society Springer Netherlands 40/4(2011-07-01), 347-383 0304-2421 40:4<347 2011 40 11186 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-011-9146-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-011-9146-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Polillo Simone Department of Sociology, University of Virginia, P.O. Box400766, 22904-4766, Charlottesville, VA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Theory and Society Springer Netherlands 40/4(2011-07-01), 347-383 0304-2421 40:4<347 2011 40 11186 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer