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Serious Money

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Item Weight

236.0000014

Seller

G-8, Basement, South Extension I, New Delhi, Delhi 110049

Authors

CAROLINE KNOWLES

Isbn

9780141994376

No of pages

320

Published Date

2023

Publisher

Penguin

Format

Paperback

Out of stock

SKU: 9780141994376 Categories: , , , Product ID: 9789395771798

Description

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.

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