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... precise processes and significance of capital relations, the role of bank hegemony and the unified control of capital flows, and the relative significance of the various sources of bank power Lending ... alteration of business and state trajectories and trace bank hegemony formation and the development and dispatch of bank power To elucidate this process, we will examine specific cases of each of the ... formation, and the relative weight of the various postulated sources of bank power The notion of the social construction of corporate and state crisis is critical to uncovering these processes of bank...