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Australia is in the midst of a major social and economic experiment
that centres on financial risks being shifted onto ordinary people.
We are being asked to manage ourselves as if we are businesses, and
these businesses are being squeezed tighter and tighter.Households
are taking on more risk and financial stress, implicitly accepting
demands that they be stable, secure payers. What is driving this,
and how might we resist it?Risking Together: How Finance is
Dominating Everyday Life in Australia explains what is systematic
about this arisk-shifting' onto households, explores the frontier
of financialised profit making, and includes suggestions on pushing
back.aThis brilliant and timely book shows how a silent yet
pervasive transformation has taken place in Australian society a|
Bryan and Rafferty show how finance has become implicated in all
aspects of social life and how mundane household financial
transactions are now central to the economic stability of the
nation.'Lisa Adkins, Head of the School of Social and Political
Sciences, University of Sydney and Academy of Finland Distinguished
Professor, University of Tampere, Finland.aIn the world of
post-blockchain technologies we're looking to build new ways of
risking together. The work of Bryan and Rafferty has been
inspiring. This new book presents us with concepts and methods of
analysis that are groundbreaking.'Akseli Virtanen, CEO, Economic
Space Agency, Oakland, California and Berlin.
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