Marlène Benquet, Théo Bourgeron

Alt-Finance (eBook, ePUB)

How the City of London Bought Democracy
Übersetzer: Morley, Meg; Bourgeron, Théo

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Powerful financial forces have supported the neoliberal project since the 1980s to advance their interests; but there are now signs that these forces have a new face and a new strategy. The majority of the British finance sector threw its support behind Britain leaving the European Union, a flagship institution of neoliberalism. Beyond this counterintuitive move, what was really happening and why? Alt-Finance examines a new authoritarian turn in financialised democracies, focusing on the City of London, revealing a dangerous alternative political project in the making.

In a clash with traditional finance, the new behemoths of financial capital - hedge funds, private equity firms and real estate funds - have started to cohere around a set of political beliefs, promoting libertarian, authoritarian, climate-denying and Eurosceptic views. Protecting investments, supressing social dissent and reducing state interference are at the core of their mission for a new world order.

By following the money, the authors provide indisputable evidence of these worrying developments. Through a clear analysis of the international dealings of this new authoritarian-libertarian regime, not just in Britain but in the US and Brazil, we can understand how our world is being shaped against our will by struggles between dominant groups.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, D ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pluto Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780745347592
• Artikelnr.: 65997253

Autorenporträt

Marlène Benquet is a CNRS research fellow at the University of Paris Dauphine. She is the co-editor of Accumulating Capital Today: Contemporary Strategies of Profit and Dispossessive Policies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The Big Money Behind Brexit
2. Second-Wave Finance vs. the European Union
3. From European Neoliberalism to Authoritarian Libertarianism
Epilogue: The Drumbeat of War
List of Tables
Notes