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SERIOUS MONEY - CAROLINE KNOWLES KARTONIERT (TB)

'A latter-day Canterbury Tales ... Serious Money has a serious mission' The Times'Eye-opening
... part guide  part indictment of a yawning wealth gap' Misha Glenny  Financial Times 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. 'An eye-opening  deeply disturbing  fast-moving journey through the lives  homes and
affairs of the filthy rich of London' Danny Dorling  author of All That Is Solid 'A wonderful
and vital account of a city ruled by  and for  extreme wealth' Anna Minton  author of Big
Capital

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