Synopses & Reviews
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"Blackburn is particularly good at disentangling the different dynamics that make the pensions problem so intractable for mature, ageing economies." Sir Howard Davis
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Blackburn does an excellent job of tracing recent developments.If Karl Marx were alive today, he would be in the British Library devouring everything he could find on pension funds: the new fuel of global capitalism. Robin Blackburn has read everything, and in this urgent and brilliant book, proposes a new strategy that unites workers of the world around the democratic control of their savings. --Mike Davis
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One of the best books I have read on pension funds....required reading for all those interested in the pensions industry. That is, all of us. --Barry Marshall
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In stormy waters and under darkening skies, Banking on Death stands like a lighthouse, providing a beam of orientation on a solid rock of research. --Goran Therborn
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This is an important and disturbing book. Blackburn is a master of the complexities of pension provision. He unsettles belief in a commercial fix to the challenge of social insurance. --Richard Sennett
Synopsis
A panoramic view of the origins and development of the pension idea.
Synopsis
Plenty of food for thought.
About the Author
Robin Blackburn is a Leverhulme research fellow based at the University of Essex in the UK. He taught as a visitor at the New School for Social Research in New York between 2001 and 2010. He is the author of many books, including The Making of New World Slavery and The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery.