Grace Blakeley – författare

Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction'A galvanising takedown of neoliberalism's "free market" logic, one rooted in as much history as it is in current events' NAOMI KLEIN'A must-read for anyone keen to put the demos back in democracy' YANIS VAROUFAKISEverything you know about capitalism is wrong.Free markets aren’t really free. Record corporate pro­fits don’t trickle down to everyone else. And we aren’t empowered to make our own choices – they’re made for us every day.In Vulture Capitalism, acclaimed journalist Grace Blakeley takes on the world’s most powerful corporations by showing how the causes of our modern crisis are the intended result of our capitalist system. It’s not broken, it’s working exactly as planned. From JPMorgan to Boeing, Henry Ford to Richard Nixon, Blakeley shows us exactly where late-stage capitalism has gone wrong.Searing, explosive and timely, Vulture Capitalism is the book you need to understand what is happening in the world around you – and what you can do to change it.'Read this book if you want to make fundamental changes to the world' HA-JOON CHANG'If you've ever wondered why you (and everyone you know) feel so out of control of the world around you, this book will give you the answer' ASH SARKAR

*A Foyles Top 10 Read for March and one of Glamour''s Best Books of March*Longlisted for the inaugural Women''s Prize for Non-Fiction''A galvanising takedown of neoliberalism''s "free market" logic, one rooted in as much history as it is in current events'' NAOMI KLEIN''A must-read for anyone keen to put the demos back in democracy'' YANIS VAROUFAKISEverything you know about capitalism is wrong.Free markets aren''t really free. Record corporate pro­fits don''t trickle down to everyone else. And we aren''t empowered to make our own choices – they''re made for us every day.In Vulture Capitalism, acclaimed journalist Grace Blakeley takes on the world''s most powerful corporations by showing how the causes of our modern crisis are the intended result of our capitalist system. It''s not broken, it''s working exactly as planned. From JPMorgan to Boeing, Henry Ford to Richard Nixon, Blakeley shows us exactly where late-stage capitalism has gone wrong.Searing, explosive and timely, Vulture Capitalism is the book you need to understand what is happening in the world around you – and what you can do to change it.''Read this book if you want to make fundamental changes to the world'' HA-JOON CHANG''If you''ve ever wondered why you (and everyone you know) feel so out of control of the world around you, this book will give you the answer'' ASH SARKAR

*A Foyles Top 10 Read for March and one of Glamour''s Best Books of March*Longlisted for the inaugural Women''s Prize for Non-Fiction''A galvanising takedown of neoliberalism''s "free market" logic, one rooted in as much history as it is in current events'' NAOMI KLEIN''A must-read for anyone keen to put the demos back in democracy'' YANIS VAROUFAKISEverything you know about capitalism is wrong.Free markets aren''t really free. Record corporate pro­fits don''t trickle down to everyone else. And we aren''t empowered to make our own choices – they''re made for us every day.In Vulture Capitalism, acclaimed journalist Grace Blakeley takes on the world''s most powerful corporations by showing how the causes of our modern crisis are the intended result of our capitalist system. It''s not broken, it''s working exactly as planned. From JPMorgan to Boeing, Henry Ford to Richard Nixon, Blakeley shows us exactly where late-stage capitalism has gone wrong.Searing, explosive and timely, Vulture Capitalism is the book you need to understand what is happening in the world around you – and what you can do to change it.''Read this book if you want to make fundamental changes to the world'' HA-JOON CHANG''If you''ve ever wondered why you (and everyone you know) feel so out of control of the world around you, this book will give you the answer'' ASH SARKAR

British politics is in an extraordinary place. Grace Blakeley introduces an indispensable collection of analysis and comment.In Futures of Socialism, Sam Gindin and James Meadway reassess socialist strategy after the coronavirus; Dalia Gebrial and Siân Errington debate austerity and precarity; Joshua Virasami and Simukai Chigudu explore anti-racism and the legacy of Empire; and Leo Panitch and Momentum co-founder James Schneider probe the limits of parliamentary socialism. Chris Saltmarsh assesses the prospects for an eco-socialist Green New Deal and Cat Hobbs argues for the ongoing centrality of public ownership to socialist policy.Futures of Socialism takes an in-depth look at the reasons for Labour's 2019 election defeat, with Unite's Andrew Murray on Labour's Brexit position, Tom Mills on the British media, Gargi Bhattacharyya and Jeremy Gilbert on better ways to build a political project, and Keir Milburn on generation left. The anthology also compares the fortunes of the British left with socialist movements overseas, in despatches from Europe and America.Blakeley draws on the talents of all sections of the post-Corbyn left to survey the prospects of 'a movement that has dominated the horizons of our lives'.

British politics is in an extraordinary place. Grace Blakeley introduces an indispensable collection of analysis and comment.In Futures of Socialism, Sam Gindin and James Meadway reassess socialist strategy after the coronavirus; Dalia Gebrial and Si�n Errington debate austerity and precarity; Joshua Virasami and Simukai Chigudu explore anti-racism and the legacy of Empire; and Leo Panitch and Momentum co-founder James Schneider probe the limits of parliamentary socialism. Chris Saltmarsh assesses the prospects for an eco-socialist Green New Deal and Cat Hobbs argues for the ongoing centrality of public ownership to socialist policy.Futures of Socialism takes an in-depth look at the reasons for Labour''s 2019 election defeat, with Unite''s Andrew Murray on Labour''s Brexit position, Tom Mills on the British media, Gargi Bhattacharyya and Jeremy Gilbert on better ways to build a political project, and Keir Milburn on generation left. The anthology also compares the fortunes of the British left with socialist movements overseas, in despatches from Europe and America.Blakeley draws on the talents of all sections of the post-Corbyn left to survey the prospects of ''a movement that has dominated the horizons of our lives''.

In The Corona Crash, leading economics commentator Grace Blakeley theorises about the epoch-making changes that the coronavirus brings in its wake. We are living through a unique moment in history. The pandemic has caused the deepest global recession since the Second World War. Meanwhile the human cost is reflected in a still-rising death toll, as many states find themselves unable - and some unwilling - to grapple with the effects of the virus. Whatever happens, we can never go back to business as usual. This crisis will tip us into a new era of monopoly capitalism, argues Blakeley, as the corporate economy collapses into the arms of the state, and the tech giants grow to unprecedented proportions.

In The Corona Crash, leading economics commentator Grace Blakeley theorises about the epoch-making changes that the coronavirus brings in its wake. We are living through a unique moment in history. The pandemic has caused the deepest global recession since the Second World War. Meanwhile the human cost is reflected in a still-rising death toll, as many states find themselves unable - and some unwilling - to grapple with the effects of the virus. Whatever happens, we can never go back to business as usual. This crisis will tip us into a new era of monopoly capitalism, argues Blakeley, as the corporate economy collapses into the arms of the state, and the tech giants grow to unprecedented proportions.

For decades, it has been easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.In the decade leading up to the 2008 financial crisis, booming banks, rising house prices and cheap consumer goods propped up living standards in the rich world. Thirty years of rocketing debt and financial wizardry had masked the deep underlying fragility of finance-led growth, and in 2008 we were forced to pay up.The decade since has witnessed all kinds of morbid symptoms, as all around the rich world, wages and productivity are stagnant, inequality is rising, and ecological systems are collapsing.Stolen is a history of finance-led growth and a guide as to how we might escape it. We’ve sat back as financial capitalism has stolen our economies, our environment and even the future itself. Now, we have an opportunity to change course. What happens next is up to us.

A readable polemic on the growing dominance of the banks over the UK economy, and what the left can do to challenge it.The last time there had been run a on a British bank was 1886, when Overend, Gurney and Company folded after their appeals to the Bank of England for support fell on deaf ears. Then, in 2008, on the brink of collapse after lending too much money to mortgage-hungry customers, Northern Rock was saved in the largest bank bail-out in history. But why, over one hundred years later, did the Bank of England change tack and intervene?The answer is that, in the years between 1886 and 2008, the UK economy had transformed, and was now more reliant on banks than ever before -- without them, almost every area of economic activity would have ground to a halt. This signifies a fundamental change in the UK''s economic model, and this fundamental change has a name: financialisation.Stolen tells the story of how and why this financialisation occurred, what it means for our society and politics, and what the left can do to fight it. At present, the odds are stacked against labour and in favour of finance capital. But what follows it will be determined by which group - the many or the few - manages to take power in this moment of crisis. How we understand this moment, and what we do with it, will determine the course of the future.

»Eine beeindruckende Abrechnung mit der kapitalistischen Logik des freien Markts« Naomi KleinDie Rede von »Freiheit« im Kapitalismus ist eine Nebelkerze, die die Reichen und Mächtigen schützt und Bürger entmündigt. Subventionen, Steuer-Deals, Hinterzimmer-Absprachen und im Notfall die Rettung durch den Staat haben eine nahezu unverwundbare Plutokratie geschaffen – finanziert durch Steuergeld, aber ohne demokratische Kontrolle.Oxford-Ökonomin, politische Analystin und Erfolgsautorin Grace Blakeley zeigt erfrischend direkt, warum die Spaltung der Gesellschaft durchaus im Interesse des Kapitals ist und weshalb nur eine Gemeinschaft auf Augenhöhe echte Freiheit und Demokratie bedeuten kann.Autobauer, die Rekordsummen an Aktionäre ausschütten, dann aber nach staatlichen Hilfen rufen und mit Streichung von Arbeitsplätzen drohen. Luftfahrtunternehmen, die Flugzeuge bauen, die nicht fliegen können und Menschenleben kosten. Ein globaler Überbietungswettbewerb in Staats-Subventionen und Kürzungen von Sozialleistungen. Während demokratische Parteien diese Entwicklungen als alternativlos bezeichnen, nutzen die Rechtsextremen die Lage schamlos aus und lenken die Wut auf die Schwächsten. Das alles ist keine Ausnahme, sondern das Wesen des Kapitalismus. Grace Blakeley legt die Mechanismen von Broligarchie und Neoliberalismus 2.0 schonungslos offen. Sie zeigt unmissverständlich: Nur wenn die Bürgerinnen und Bürger zusammenhalten, haben sie eine Chance, die Allianz aus Superreichen und rechten Politkern zu brechen und ein freies Leben für alle zu bewahren.