“…Here, the Marxist tradition has clearly been unduly neglected, especially finance-driven theories of imperialism (Patnaik and Patnaik, 2021;Lenin, 1999Lenin, [1907; Hobson, 2011Hobson, [1902; Luxemburg, 2015Luxemburg, [1913) and dependency and world systems scholarship (Amin, 1974;Arrighi, 1994). Recently, however, IPE scholars have increasingly drawn on this tradition to theorize the power of finance in the Global South (Alami, 2019;Bernards, 2019;Dafe 2019;Kvangraven, 2021;de Goede, 2020;Koddenbrock et al, 2020;Tilley, 2020;Alami et al, 2022). 3 Finance was eventually brought back into the political economy literature via the concept of financialization (Krippner, 2005;Perry and Nölke, 2006;van der Zwan, 2014).…”