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Alt-finance
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- Book Synopsis
- 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.
- About The Author
- 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.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780745347585
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Pluto Press, (20 October 2022)
- Number of Pages
- 176
- Weight
- 321 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 129 x 14 mm
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