Alt-Finance (eBook)

How the City of London Bought Democracy

Marlène Benquet, Théo Bourgeron (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-0-7453-4759-2 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.10.2022
• Übersetzer: Meg Morley, Théo Bourgeron
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
• Schlagworte: Alternative finance • authoritarianism • Brexit • capitalism today • climate skepiticism • Elite conflicts • European Union • finance and ideology • financial authoritarianism • Financial Sector • Future of Capitalism • Libertarianism • modern neoliberalism • neoconservatives • Neoliberalism • new neoliberalism • New World Order • politics of finance • why did britain leave the EU
• ISBN-10: 0-7453-4759-2 / 0745347592
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7453-4759-2 / 9780745347592