Alt-Finance

‘Fascinating. Shows convincingly that Brexit was financed by hedge funds and alternative finance, and that their ultimate goal was to promote a new wave of financial deregulation and buy off our democratic institutions. A great piece of social sciences and a must-read’

– Thomas Piketty, author of ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’

‘A fresh and urgent agenda for social science research for years to come’

– Johan Heilbron, Professor in the Sociology of Education at Uppsala University

‘An unparalleled look into the class interests driving today’s anti-democratic insurgency and its links with the authoritarian libertarianism of the hard right. Ground-breaking’

– Melinda Cooper is based at the Australian National University

‘A remarkable foray into the radicalisation of the political order inherent in our contemporary financial condition: an order for which remaining pockets of liberal democracy are no longer of use’

– Fabian Muniesa, Professor at the Ecole des Mines de Paris

‘Rare and empirically rich’

– Contretemps

‘A dark tale, announcing the new concept of an ‘authoritarian libertarianism”

– Mediapart

‘This provocative opus remarkably demonstrates how conflicts among different fractions of capital were the key drivers of UK’s recent Eighteenth Brumaire: Brexit’

– Olivier Godechot, author of ‘Wages, Bonuses and the Appropriation of Profit in the Financial Industry’

Marlène Benquet is a CNRS research fellow at the University of Paris Dauphine. She is the co-editor of Accumulating Capital Today: Contemporary Strategies of Profit and Dispossessive Policies.

Théo Bourgeron is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. He has published in international journals such as Economy & Society and Organization, and is the co-editor of Accumulating Capital Today: Contemporary Strategies of Profit and Dispossessive Policies.

Meg Morley is a Paris-based translator. After several years documenting renewable energy and environmental issues for governmental agencies, her work has expanded to include economic policy, political science and sociology.