“…33 A key feature of financialisation consists of the shift in the balance of power between finance and industry. In contrast to the Golden Age's full employment-easy money strategies, restrictive monetary policies and the top priority of price stability as the main policy target are key institutional developments in central banking, that are associated with neoliberalism and the financialisation process, and have led to higher interest rates (Wray, 2007a;Crotty, 2000a). In view of this evidence, several economists, treating interest rate as exogenous distribution parameter defined by central banks strategies, infer that financialisation may have well increased income flows from the real to financial sector (see Argitis and Pitelis, 2006;Hein 2006).…”