A panoramic view of the origins and development of the pension idea
Robin Blackburn teaches at the University of Essex and is an editor at New Left Review. He is the author of many books, including The American Crucible, The Making of New World Slavery, The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, Age Shock and Banking on Death.
Blackburn is particularly good at disentangling the different
dynamics that make the pensions problem so intractable for mature,
ageing economies.
*Guardian*
Blackburn does an excellent job of tracing recent developments.
*Economist*
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*
One of the best books I have read on pension funds.
*Independent*
... required reading for all those interested in the pensions
industry. That is, all of us.
*Barry Marshall*
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*
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*
Plenty of food for thought.
*Times Literary Supplement*
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