Disembedded: Regulation, Crisis, and Democracy in the Age of Finance - Paperbackby Basak Kus (Author) During the last two decades, there has been much scholarly and popular interest in the financialization of the American economy why the turn to finance has taken place, what constituted it, and what has come out of it. In Disembedded, Basak Kus draws from the theories of Karl Polanyi one of the greatest and most influential political economists of the twentieth century to answer these questions. Focused primarily on the state's