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Book SynopsisA clear analysis of the about-turn in the modern financial sector towards free market authoritarianism
Trade Review'Fascinating. Shows convincingly that Brexit was financed by hedge funds and alternative finance, and that their ultimate goal was to promote a new wave of financial deregulation and buy off our democratic institutions. A great piece of social sciences and a must-read'
-- Thomas Piketty, author of 'Capital in the Twenty-First Century'
'A fresh and urgent agenda for social science research for years to come'
-- Johan Heilbron, Professor in the Sociology of Education at Uppsala University
'An unparalleled look into the class interests driving today's anti-democratic insurgency and its links with the authoritarian libertarianism of the hard right. Ground-breaking'
-- Melinda Cooper is based at the Australian National University
'A remarkable foray into the radicalisation of the political order inherent in our contemporary financial condition: an order for which remaining pockets of liberal democracy are no longer of use'
-- Fabian Muniesa, Professor at the Ecole des Mines de Paris
'Rare and empirically rich'
-- Contretemps
'A dark tale, announcing the new concept of an 'authoritarian libertarianism''
-- Mediapart
'This provocative opus remarkably demonstrates how conflicts among different fractions of capital were the key drivers of UK's recent Eighteenth Brumaire: Brexit'
-- Olivier Godechot, author of 'Wages, Bonuses and the Appropriation of Profit in the Financial Industry'
Table of ContentsIntroduction
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
