The global market in money - housed in the offshore 'shadow' banking system - holds $217 trillion in financial assets and operates beyond the reach of any nation's taxman. Asset managers, private equity firms, and pension and sovereign wealth funds scoop up the world's savings for investment and manage them as they choose, unaccountable to politicians or the citizens who elect them.
In this brilliant, accessible and incisive introduction to the murky world of glo?balized finance, Ann Pettifor links the activities of remote mobile financial markets to both the cost-of-living and climate crises. In an insane global casino, bankers are gambling with our future. When we foot the bill, no one but a few economists understands what has happened. The result is volatile, unpre?dictable and uncontrollable speculation in global commodities, pension, energy, and housing.
Pettifor argues that societies and gov?ernments can take back control of the global financial system. We have done it before and can do it again. Indeed, it is imperative that we do so if we are to manage the twin threats of climate breakdown and biosphere collapse.
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- Cover Page
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The Origin of Today’s ‘Revolutionary Situation’
- Chapter 2: Money and Power
- Chapter 3: Your Pension and the Asset Economy
- Chapter 4: Speculation and Our Daily Bread
- Chapter 5: Playing Poker with the Energy System
- Chapter 6: The Financialisation of Housing
- Chapter 7: Climate and the Casino
- Chapter 8: The Need for System Change
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Index
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