Dick Bryan is professor emeritus of political economy at the University of Sydney. Michael Rafferty is an associate professor of international business at RMIT. He was an ARC Future Fellow at the University of Sydney from 2012-2016.

"Dick Bryan and Michael Rafferty offer a provocative caveat in Risking Together, arguing that wealth and income inequality do not fully, or even best, explain the financial distress of middle class Australians ... It is therefore an invaluable addition to the cultural economy canon, an introduction suitable for both undergraduate university students and the workers, consumers and citizens whose story it tells." -- Carolyn Hardin, Journal of Cultural Economy

• List of figuresList of tablesList of abbreviationsPreface Introduction 1. Financial ways of thinking and the risks they reveal2. Risk and the intrusion of finance into daily life3. Financialised work: re-thinking employment through finance4. Finance beyond work: debt, superannuation and securitisation5. A hedge fund of your own life: households in financial markets6. Making households profitable for finance7. Pushing back in a financialised way8. Short cuts: lean, prime propositionsAppendix 1: types of derivatives - futures, swaps, options and securitiesAppendix 2: data sources and calculationsReferencesIndex

Dick Bryan is professor emeritus of political economy at the University of Sydney. Michael Rafferty is an associate professor of international business at RMIT. He was an ARC Future Fellow at the University of Sydney from 2012-2016.

"Dick Bryan and Michael Rafferty offer a provocative caveat in Risking Together, arguing that wealth and income inequality do not fully, or even best, explain the financial distress of middle class Australians ... It is therefore an invaluable addition to the cultural economy canon, an introduction suitable for both undergraduate university students and the workers, consumers and citizens whose story it tells." -- Carolyn Hardin, Journal of Cultural Economy

• List of figuresList of tablesList of abbreviationsPreface Introduction 1. Financial ways of thinking and the risks they reveal2. Risk and the intrusion of finance into daily life3. Financialised work: re-thinking employment through finance4. Finance beyond work: debt, superannuation and securitisation5. A hedge fund of your own life: households in financial markets6. Making households profitable for finance7. Pushing back in a financialised way8. Short cuts: lean, prime propositionsAppendix 1: types of derivatives - futures, swaps, options and securitiesAppendix 2: data sources and calculationsReferencesIndex