Financialization Research Lab

Welcome to the homepage and website of the Financialization Research Lab, a research unit based at the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University.

For a detailed description of this Lab, please check out our “About the Lab” page, listed above and accessible here: https://carleton.ca/financializationlab/about/

For an idea of the kind of work this Lab is doing, and plans to pursue further, check out the video recording of our major “launch” event from March 26, 2025, organized through our joint ‘Resisting Pension Fund Capitalism’ project (with GRAIN), and with vital support of PSI Inter-America. This international event featured speakers from Australia, Brazil, and Chile, and situated the major problems of ‘Pension Fund Capitalism’ front and centre. That video is available through our project blog page as well as, for now, here below: