But what I fear these perspectives often lose sight of is the way the economic, or the capitalist economic system as a whole, is not merely the product of human activity: it also helps shape human activity, and, as its power grows in an era of neoliberal, corporate-led, financialized globalization, it starts to run societies around the world in ways that are outside the control of any human agency, at least as we imagine that agency today.

Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, loc. 340