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- Hardcover
240 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2026
Summary
For readers of Brett Christophers, Yanis Varoufakis and Grace Blakeley, Pettifor unpacks the hidden world of shadow banking and shows how global markets really work.
Wall Street controls the price of anything. Larger than the national economies, and almost invisible, it nevertheless determines the international costs of everyday things - from the cost of oil to household goods and most importantly of all, credit. Unless we understand how the money system works we will never be able to…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781804297223 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1804297224 |
| Author: | Ann Pettifor |
| Publisher: | Verso Books |
| Imprint: | Verso Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2026 |
| Weight: | 336g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 153mm x 18mm |
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A searing indictment of a global financial system built for extraction and domination. Pettifor masterfully exposes the ways in which global finance embeds inequality, generates crisis, and encloses the future - and charts a path towards a just, sustainable, and democratic global financial system – Grace Blakeley, author of Vulture Capitalism
the murky world of global finance disempowers governments and democracies, and crucially, what we can do to get our power back. – Ash Sarkar, author of Minority Rule
About The Author
Ann Pettifor
Ann Pettifor is a political economist with a focus on finance and sovereign debt. She is director of Prime: Policy Research in Macroeconomics, an Honorary Research Fellow at City University, a fellow of the New Economics Foundation, and has an honorary doctorate from Newcastle University. She is known for her leadership of a campaign that resulted in massive debt cancellation for more than 30 countries – Jubilee 2000. She has served on the board of the UN Development Report and in 2015 was invited onto the economic advisory board by the British Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn. She is the author of ‘The Real World Economic Outlook’, and ‘The Coming First World Debt Crisis’, and co-authored The Green New Deal and The Economic Consequences of Mr. Osborne.
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