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Serious Money
Walking Plutocratic London
Taschenbuch von Caroline Knowles
Sprache: Englisch

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'A latter-day Canterbury Tales ... Serious Money has a serious mission' The Times

'Eye-opening ... part guide, part indictment of a yawning wealth gap' Misha Glenny, Financial Times


London is a plutocrat's paradise, with more resident billionaires than New York, Hong Kong or Moscow. Far from trickling down, their wealth is burning up the environment and swallowing up the city. But what do we really know about London's super rich, and the lives they lead?

To find out more about this secretive elite, sociologist Caroline Knowles walks the streets of London from the City to suburban Surrey. Her walks reveal how the wealthy shape the capital in their image, creating a new world of gated communities and luxury developments. Along the way we meet a wide and wickedly entertaining cast of millionaires, billionaires and those who serve them: bankers, tech tycoons, Conservative party donors, butlers, bodyguards, divorce lawyers and many more.

By turns jaw-dropping, enraging and enlightening, Serious Money explodes the fiction that wealth is a condition to aspire to, revealing the isolation and paranoia which accompany it when the plutocrat's recompense - a life of unlimited luxury - ultimately proves hollow. It is a powerful reminder that it is not just the super-rich who get to make the city: we make it too, and could demand something different. Because serious money is good for no one - not even the rich.

'An eye-opening, deeply disturbing, fast-moving journey through the lives, homes and affairs of the filthy rich of London' Danny Dorling, author of All That Is Solid

'A wonderful and vital account of a city ruled by, and for, extreme wealth' Anna Minton, author of Big Capital

'A latter-day Canterbury Tales ... Serious Money has a serious mission' The Times

'Eye-opening ... part guide, part indictment of a yawning wealth gap' Misha Glenny, Financial Times


London is a plutocrat's paradise, with more resident billionaires than New York, Hong Kong or Moscow. Far from trickling down, their wealth is burning up the environment and swallowing up the city. But what do we really know about London's super rich, and the lives they lead?

To find out more about this secretive elite, sociologist Caroline Knowles walks the streets of London from the City to suburban Surrey. Her walks reveal how the wealthy shape the capital in their image, creating a new world of gated communities and luxury developments. Along the way we meet a wide and wickedly entertaining cast of millionaires, billionaires and those who serve them: bankers, tech tycoons, Conservative party donors, butlers, bodyguards, divorce lawyers and many more.

By turns jaw-dropping, enraging and enlightening, Serious Money explodes the fiction that wealth is a condition to aspire to, revealing the isolation and paranoia which accompany it when the plutocrat's recompense - a life of unlimited luxury - ultimately proves hollow. It is a powerful reminder that it is not just the super-rich who get to make the city: we make it too, and could demand something different. Because serious money is good for no one - not even the rich.

'An eye-opening, deeply disturbing, fast-moving journey through the lives, homes and affairs of the filthy rich of London' Danny Dorling, author of All That Is Solid

'A wonderful and vital account of a city ruled by, and for, extreme wealth' Anna Minton, author of Big Capital

Über den Autor
Caroline Knowles
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Fachbereich: Regionalgeschichte
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780141994376
ISBN-10: 0141994371
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: B-format paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Knowles, Caroline
Hersteller: Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
Penguin
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Produktsicherheitsverantwortliche/r, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 129 x 196 x 23 mm
Von/Mit: Caroline Knowles
Erscheinungsdatum: 25.05.2023
Gewicht: 0,24 kg
Artikel-ID: 123196273
Über den Autor
Caroline Knowles
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Fachbereich: Regionalgeschichte
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780141994376
ISBN-10: 0141994371
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: B-format paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Knowles, Caroline
Hersteller: Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
Penguin
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Produktsicherheitsverantwortliche/r, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 129 x 196 x 23 mm
Von/Mit: Caroline Knowles
Erscheinungsdatum: 25.05.2023
Gewicht: 0,24 kg
Artikel-ID: 123196273
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