Alt-Finance: How the City of London Bought Democracy Benquet Marlene
A clear analysis of the about-turn in the modern financial sector towards free-market authoritarianismPowerful financial forces have supported the neoliberal project since the 1980s to advance their…
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A clear analysis of the about-turn in the modern financial sector towards free-market authoritarianismPowerful 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
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