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This book contains all you wish to know about amassing 'treasure' on the cheap. From an 18TH century Chelsea porcelain figurine acquired by the author for 20 pence at a jumble sale, to a Charles II commemorative copper box full of English hammered silver coinage found, once again. by the author, in the foreshore of the muddy river Thames in the heart of London. Lavishly illustrated with many discoveries made between the years of 1970 to 2004, wonderful objects, and all acquired from hunting treasure on a true shoestring budget..

Licensed larceny is best viewed as a proxy for how for how effectively elites have constructed institutions that extract value from the rest of society. For inequality is not just a problem of poverty and the poor; it is as much a problem of wealth and the rich. The provision of public services is one area which is increasingly being reconfigured to extract wealth upward to the one per cent, notably through so-called Public Private Partnerships (PPPs). The push for PPPs is not about building infrastructure for the benefit of society but about constructing new subsidies that benefit the...