Across five seminars, this workshop explores how finance came to dominate modern economies, and how states are now trying to put it to work. You will begin with the legal construction of financialization, from Katharina Pistor's account of how law creates wealth to Greta Krippner's history of America's financial turn. You will then examine how financialization has transformed firms and labor relations, before turning to how financial markets are governed in Europe, from banking supervision to the Capital Markets Union. The final seminars focus on the return of industrial policy, from the "derisking" of private investment and the rise of the European investor state to green industrial policy and the lessons of the US Inflation Reduction Act. Throughout, you will learn to judge who really holds the power when public goals depend on private capital.