{"title":"Books by Peter Phillips","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781644214336","title":"Titans of Capital","description":"\u003cb\u003eA fascinating examination of the rapid concentration of global capital, with chapters that focus on China and Russia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExplores how fewer and larger investment companies now manage the excess financial wealth of the world’s 40 million richest people, to the detriment of everyone else and the global environment.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTitans of Capital\u003c\/i\u003e, Peter Phillips, a political sociologist, poses three key research questions: To what extent do the wealthy influence—or even dominate—decision making that affects all of us in society? Who are the most powerful people? And how does the accumulation of capital work?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNetworks of wealthy individuals have evolved since the COVID-19 pandemic, and \u003ci\u003eTitans of Capital \u003c\/i\u003eshows how the financial investments of transnational elites threaten human rights and the future of the planet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePrivate capital investments\u003c\/b\u003e serve as the primary operating funds for international arms sales, private prisons, and other socially negative activities. These investments fuel the continued use of carbon-based energy leading to amplified global warming and climate change.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eMilitary spending\u003c\/b\u003e is a critical component of continued wealth concentration and political power in the world. Spending on arms and intelligence is a required aspect of maintaining global power and control.  Dealing with Russia, China, Iran and other “rogue” states is a continuing agenda for agents of the world power elites.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePropaganda machines\u003c\/b\u003e in Western capitalist governments serve to protect elite wealth by promoting military conflicts to open new regions for economic investment.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhillips warns that while continued concentration of global capital increases the profits enjoyed by the global economy’s “Titans,”, it also increases global inequality, starvation, and civil unrest, threatening the lives of the hundreds of millions of people living in extreme poverty. It is imperative to ask how we can reverse the concentration of Titan wealth and revitalize grassroots democracy unbridled by extreme wealth. Identifying 117 global Titans by name and exposing the networks and interests that unite them provides readers opposed to militarism and committed to economic equality with crucial tools to directly engage the power elite who endanger life on earth.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54911839207797,"sku":"9781644214336","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781644214336_019fb0c6-50c3-4ecb-82c7-57e29b94ca3e.jpg?v=1786024316"},{"product_id":"9780367247850","title":"The Tragedy of Nazi Germany","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1969, this book discusses the many factors which atomised German society from 1870 onwards and thus assisted Nazi evil, and it shows that Hitler and Nazism were mere phenomena of a mass age. The author wrote with the twin qualifications as historian and survivor of the camps. To have lived through it and then dissect it as a scholar is an astonishing achievement and it is this achievement that this book records.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56287514198389,"sku":"9780367247850","price":36.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780367247850_e07cb3d7-b92e-4278-9512-70ae2c9f18e3.jpg?v=1786014221"},{"product_id":"financial-and-technological-innovation-for-low-and-middle-income-countries","title":"Financial and Technological Innovation For Low- and Middle-income Countries","description":"\u003cp\u003eFinancial and technological innovation is considered one of the most important challenges as central bankers, policy makers, and international financial institutions work to stimulate growth and development. Digitization, tokenization, tele-mobility, and AI have all driven the transformation of our financial landscape, with knock-on effects on central banks, the public sector, urban development, health services, education, social protection, and the broader economy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book focuses on the uptake, use, and transformation of digital technologies in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). In spite of major barriers to development, LMICs have aggressively adapted digital applications to accelerate development, with the advantage that in many cases new digital applications are not competing with pre-existing products or services; some of the most innovative developments have been where LMICs have moved directly to advanced applications, leapfrogging older technologies that block innovation in many developed nations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFocusing on case studies and evidence from Africa, Asia, and Latin America, across multiple sectors (banking, health, education, public sector, social protection, agriculture, micro, small and medium enterprises, and the gig economy), this book challenges traditional thinking-from financial economics, innovation economics, digital economics, platform economics, and mainstream economics-that tech will have its most important impacts in highly developed countries. This book provides ample evidence that LMICs have real opportunities, many which are already being realized, to use tech to improve the economic and social wellbeing of their citizens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book examines these developments in the context of concerns arising from digitization, including digital financial inclusion and concerns about data privacy and security, cyber security, job displacement, platform power, and regulatory asymmetries in low- and middle-income countries. While these issues remain salient in LMICs, their impact varies by level of development and specific national context.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57524711719285,"sku":"9781836997023","price":145.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781836997023.jpg?v=1787742772"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-peter-phillips.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}