Mariana Mazzucato

Alan Shipman

Andrew Trigg

Personal Investment in an Uncertain World aims to provide a sound introduction to personal financial investment. It considers the co-evolution of financial products, markets, regulation and socio-economic change. The challenge for individual investors is how best to negotiate this difficult and shifting terrain over a lifetime of varying choices and responsibilities. The purpose of the book is two-fold: to endow the reader with a fundamental knowledge of financial markets; and to equip them with the skills necessary for achieving their financial goals through investments. An expert author team from The Open University uses a sociological perspective to show how people can adapt to the increasing 'financialisation' of their lives, due in a large part to the shift in financial responsibility from the state to the individual. They also highlight the increasing degree to which financial markets, and the various products that are sold in those markets, affect economic stability. The book shows how personal investment decisions are located within, and influenced by, a myriad of factors in the wider world of finance and trade, and how available tools and resources can be used effectively to manage personal investments and risk. Key financial principles, practices, instruments and institutions are explained, drawing on a range of international examples and comparative case studies. Companion Website: http://www.palgrave.com/business/mazzucato/

Personal Investment: financial planning in an uncertain world

Jonquil Lowe

This innovative new teaching text provides an introduction to personal investment in a world defined by uncertainty. With a focus on risk, socio-economic change and the regulatory framework, and a wealth of international case studies, the book covers all the key issues that affect personal investment decisions and their ultimate success or failure.

Bryan Turner

June Edmunds

Elites have always ruled – wielding inordinate power and wealth, taking decisions that shape life for the rest. In good times the ‘1%’ can hide their privilege, or use growing social mobility and economic prosperity as a justification. When times get tougher there’s a backlash. So the first years of the twenty-first century – a time of financial crashes, oligarchy and corruption in the West; persistent poverty in the south; and rising inequality everywhere – have brought elites and ‘establishments’ under unprecedented fire. Yet those swept to power by this discontent are themselves a part of the elite, attacking from within and extending rather than ending its agenda. The New Power Elite shows how major political and social change is typically driven by renegade elite fractions, who co-opt or sideline elites’ traditional enemies. It is the first book to combine the politics, economics, sociology and history of elite rule to present a compact, comprehensive account of who’s at the top, and why we let them get there.

Alan Shipman

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