The Financialisation of Power: How Financiers Rule Africa

ISBN-13: 9780367110765 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 198 str.

Sarah Bracking

Opis

The financial crash of 2008 led people all over the world to ask how far financiers are in control of our lives. To what extent does what they do with our money affect our everyday lives? With particular reference to Africa, this book asks whether the crisis, and subsequent use of public subsidies to help the international economy recover, was a unique event, or a symptom of a wider malaise where financiers have effectively usurped the power of governments and are running the political economy themselves.

Recenzje

'Once again Sarah Bracking has delivered a stunning tour de force that ranges from the grand South African infrastructure projects to the milliseconds of computerised trade deals in Chicago. Empirically rich, theoretically sophisticated, challenging, provocative and disturbing, this book will help you to see finance, and especially development finance, in a completely new light.’ — Professor Dan Brockington, Director, The Sheffield Institute for Development Studies, UK

O autorze

Sarah Bracking is SARCHi Chair in Applied Poverty Reduction Assessment at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and Professor of International Development at the University of Manchester, UK.