Alt-Finance - How the City of London Bought Democracy

A clear analysis of the about-turn in the modern financial sector towards free market authoritarianism

List of contents

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

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.
Théo Bourgeron is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. He has published in international journals such as Economy & Society and Organization, and is the co-editor of Accumulating Capital Today: Contemporary Strategies of Profit and Dispossessive Policies.
Meg Morley is a Paris-based translator. After several years documenting renewable energy and environmental issues for governmental agencies, her work has expanded to include economic policy, political science and sociology.
Théo Bourgeron is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. He has published in international journals such as Economy & Society and Organization, and is the co-editor of Accumulating Capital Today: Contemporary Strategies of Profit and Dispossessive Policies.

Summary

A clear analysis of the about-turn in the modern financial sector towards free market authoritarianism

Product details

• Authors: Marlene Benquet, Marlène Benquet, Marlene (University of Paris Dauphine) Benquet, Marlene (University of Paris Dauphine) Bo Benquet, Theo Bourgeron, Théo Bourgeron, Theo (University of Edinburgh) Bourgeron
• Assisted by: Theo Bourgeron (Translation), Théo Bourgeron (Translation), Theo (University of Edinburgh) Bourgeron (Translation), Meg Morley (Translation)
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2022
• EAN: 9780745346854
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-4685-4
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; London, Greater London, City of London, Capitalism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Corruption & Misconduct, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 21st Century, Economic history, Political Economy, Economic systems & structures, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Free Enterprise & Capitalism, Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies