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Serious Money: Walking Plutocratic London
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Wydawca: Penguin Books Ltd
EAN: 9780141994376
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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
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'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
Producent/osoba odpowiedzialna za bezpieczeństwo produktu
Penguin Random House Ireland Limited
Morrison Chambers, 32 Nassau Street
D02 YH68 Dublin
productsafety@penguin.co.uk
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Wydawca: Penguin Books Ltd
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Tytuł:Serious Money: Walking Plutocratic London
EAN: 9780141994376
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