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Stolen

How to Save the World from Financialisation

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Stolen

By: Grace Blakeley
Narrated by: Grace Blakeley
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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.

©2019 Grace Blakeley (P)2019 Watkins Media Limited Labour & Industrial Relations Politics & Government Social Classes & Economic Disparity Sociology Capitalism Socialism Banking Economic disparity US Economy Economic Inequality Taxation Great Recession

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There was a lot of interesting chapters, but all in all there weren't entirely put into a cohesive object.

The narrator read it too fast - I was listening at 0.9.

Interesting read but a bit chaotic

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Great explanation of how the post-war consensus ultimately failed, how the neoliberal consesus collasped and how a new economic model must be designed to end the stagnant productivity and falling wages seen since.

Thorough analysis of modern political economics

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My first encounter with this author and I would try another book by Grace.

Grace is a provactive thinker, something the planet needs more of right now. She shares her ideas on a macro level. My biggest challenge with some of Grace's ideas is they are shared with caveats of what else would need to be figured out to make her ideas work. For me, this leaves some of the concepts unworkable and therefore while thought provoking, they arent the answers.

Worth a read to gain a different perspective, and by remaining open minded, it could well lead to further thought that is the answer.

Author reads very clearly but way to slow for me, so listened on a much faster than normal speed.

Grace Blakeley is a provoctive thinker

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The majority of the book was a downer as it started off, how it went all wrong to hope towards the end.

As a left wing person this really made me a little less bummed out and has emboldened me
To get a green new deal!

I’ve listened to Grace Blakley other books and podcasts so it’s always worth the listen.

Beacon of hope

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grace blakely is a rising superstar of the left. this book well and truly cements her place as one of the most thoughtful, articulate and optimistic voices of the left. if you've ever thought that out society and its economic model isnt working, and wondered if we could be doing things better, then this is a great place to start. she gives a detailed bit accessible history of politics and econkmics over the last 40 years, including how we gpt into this mess, and outlines a ohenomenal case for how we get ourselves out of this. I'd put her alongside Yanis Varoufakis!

read this if youve ever asked "can it be better?"

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