Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Indebted investors as subjects of finance

2. Althusser and Foucault: Subjectivity stratified

3. The political economy of financial subjectivity: Structures and subjects

4. "The spirit of entrepreneurship": Discourse and strategy in the policy of Margaret Thatcher

5. The struggles of saving and borrowing, and the question of class

6. The uneven and contradictory nature of financial subjectivity: Subjugation and exclusion in the financialised social formation

7. Conclusion: Class and financial inequality

About the Author

Niamh Mulcahy is Alice Tong Sze Research Fellow at Lucy Cavendish College, and the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities at the University of Cambridge, UK.