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Why is finance so important? How do stock markets work and what do they really do? Most importantly, what might finance be and what could we expect from it? Exploring contemporary finance via the development of stock exchanges, markets and the links with states, Roscoe mingles historical and technical detail with humorous anecdotes and lively portraits of market participants. Deftly combining research and autobiographical vignettes, he offers a cautionary tale about the drive of financial markets towards expropriation, capture and exclusion. Positioning financial markets as central devices...

A Richer Life: How Economics Can Change the Way We Think and Feel by Philip Roscoe is a radical, inspiring, agenda-setting critique that shows how economics invades our most intimate decisions, and what the real alternatives might be. "A brilliant critique" (Robert Skidelsky, prize-winning biographer of John Maynard Keynes). "Impressive ...important ...very thoughtful and thought-provoking". (Ha-Joon Chang, author of 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism). "A splendid denunciation of the dismal science ...a fine book, on the side of the angels". (Guardian). "A powerful description...