"By 'financialization,' Martin refers to the influence of financial calculations and judgments, and his valuable starting point is that financialization, having fundamentally altered American business over the past four decades, is well on its way to doing the same to other areas of U.S. life...His themes are superb. Martin shows how economic change operates as much at the level of ... Read morelived experience as it does at the level of ideology and his arguments should interest anyone concerned with the impact of financialization on recent art and criticism."-Chris Newfield, Dept. of English, University of California, Santa Barbara "[T]his is an important book which deserves to be widely read."-The Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare "[Randy Martin] must be applauded for his many courageous forays into the literature of financial self-management, and for the often entertainingly grotesque examples he has brought back from those expeditions."-Science and Society "Randy Martin's Financialization of Daily Life is deeply immersed in its historical place and time, and as such it confronts the reader with a provocative combination of recognition and disorientation."-Culture Machine Show Less