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thumb|350px|right|Share in Gross domestic product|GDP of US financial sector from 1860 to 2008

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  • Specific academic approaches
  • Roots
  • Accelerated growth of the finance sector
  • Early 20th century history in the United States
  • Deregulation and accelerated growth
  • Welfare state and financialization
  • The development of leverage and financial derivatives
  • Effects on the economy
  • Cause of financial crises
  • Effects on political system
  • See also
  • Notes
  • Sources
  • Further reading
  • External links

thumb|350px|right|Share in Gross domestic product|GDP of US financial sector from 1860 to 2008

Financialization (or financialisation in British English) is a term sometimes used to describe the development of financial capitalism during the period from 1980 to the present, in which debt-to-equity ratios increased and financial services accounted for an increasing share of national income relative to other sectors.

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