The Power of Money: Global Financial Markets, National Politics, and Social Determinants of Health

“Financialization” has been identified as a dominant trend in the operation of many national economies, and especially the global economic system, over the past few decades (Epstein, 2005). Because of the consequences of the operations of today’s financial markets for social determinants of health (SDH) – the conditions of life and work that make it easy for some people to lead long and healthy lives, but all but impossible for others -- I argue that those though they do not operate through institutional frameworks analogous to the World Trade Organization, and often do not require formal coordination. markets must be understood as forms of ‘governance’ in the context of global health, eve