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Most of us think about money every day. But how many of us know how it actually works?Every morning, someone unassumingly types numbers into a spreadsheet, hits enter and creates millions of pounds. Somewhere deep underground, a machine most of us will never see props up the entire British economy. And hidden in a vault nearby are individual banknotes worth £100 million each. These are just some of the surprising truths about how money works.The Bank of England know more about the money system than most - after all, it is their job to keep it running smoothly. Now, for the first time, two of its economists take you deep into their vaults to tell you the inside story of money.They explain how ordinary banks are able to create money from scratch, and what stops that descending into chaos. They explore what causes inflation and why one country tried to solve rising prices by asking its citizens to cut all banknotes in half. They uncover how a baby hippo briefly became a global currency, and what that says about the future of money. And they reveal what goes on inside the Bank of England during a banking crisis, and why it means your money is safer now than ever before.Along the way, they explore how money is changing today - and what new technologies like crypto mean for its future. The result is a lively and surprising guide to how money is supposed to work, what happens when it doesn't, and where it might be going next.

The Surprising Truth About How Money Works

Money: The Inside Story

What happens when democracy becomes just another commodity? 'Michael Auerbach has one of the most original minds I've ever encountered . . . This is a dazzling and entertaining book . . . But it is also an urgent warning' PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE, author of London Falling 'This is a forensic, urgent and barely believable expose of a world that prices everything but values nothing. I was enthralled and appalled by it, and I bet you will be too. It's superb' OLIVER BULLOUGH, author of MoneylandPrediction markets are sweeping the world, fundamentally changing the nature of gambling - and the very ways in which we attempt to divine the future. Posed as binary 'Yes/No' questions about future events, prediction markets allow any difference of opinion - whether on pop culture or politics, wars or assassinations - to be financialised. They have proved as effective at accurately predicting the timing of missile strikes as they have at calling the outcomes of elections.But are these markets really a new phenomenon? And what does it mean when those tasked with safeguarding democracy hold financial stakes in its volatility?From Renaissance Rome, where merchants wagered on papal conclaves, through wartime coffee house gossip, to the Pentagon's terrorism futures exchange and blockchain betting on Polymarket today, The Big Bet tells the gripping five-hundred-year story of a permissive regime that no one designed and no one voted for.Drawing on deep expertise, Michael Auerbach examines what all this means for a future where democracy becomes just another commodity to be priced and traded. Because prediction markets are not an anomaly - they are the logical endpoint of a society that has applied market capitalism to every aspect of life. And in a world where everything is a wager and nothing is off limits, knowing where the chips will fall matters more than ever.

Prediction Markets and the Future of Democracy

The Big Bet

How Do Bring Down an Oligarchy

In the spring of 2018, one man began by walking.
He did not know he would win. He only knew that standing still had become impossible.
Twenty-six days later, the oligarchy fell without a single death.

Ilkka Ronkainen was there. He lived next door to the Armenian parliament, walked the streets of Yerevan day after day, and wrote every evening. He watched a revolution take shape from twenty meters away and watched what was left unbuilt in its aftermath.
This book is his account of both.
The first part is a day-by-day diary of Armenia's Velvet Revolution of 2018, one of the most remarkable political events of the twenty-first century. The second part asks the harder question: eight years later, what did the revolution actually deliver? Elections became genuinely free. The economy grew at extraordinary speed. Fear weakened. But high-level corruption remained unpunished, the judiciary never became truly independent, and the deep structures of oligarchic power adapted rather than disappeared.
Armenia proved that a population can withdraw its consent from a corrupt system and prevail: peacefully, joyfully, and with overwhelming unity.
What it could not yet prove is how to make that change permanent.
Power is not untouchable. Systems that appear permanent are not permanent. Fear is not permanent.

Armenia's Bloodless Revolution and What It Left Unfinished

How to Bring Down an Oligarchy I

KIRKUS PRIZE FINALIST • A stunning new work from universally acclaimed Daniyal Mueenuddin, whose debut short story collection won the Story Prize and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Book Prize, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. “The pages turn themselves. . . . This Is Where the Serpent Lives is a serious book that you’ll be hearing about again when the shortlists for the big literary prizes are announced.” —The New York Times Moving from Pakistan’s dazzling chaotic cities to its lawless feudal countryside, This Is Where the Serpent Lives powerfully evokes contemporary feudal Pakistan, following the destinies of a dozen unforgettable characters whose lives are linked through violence and tragedy, triumph, and love. Orphaned as a little boy and fending for himself in the city streets, Yazid rises to a place of responsibility and respect in the Lahore household of Colonel Atar, a powerful industrialist and politician, only to find that position threatened by conflicting loyalties and misplaced trust. Born on Colonel Atar’s country estate to a poor gardener, Saqib is entrusted with the management of a pioneering business, but he overreaches and finds himself an outlaw, confronting the violence of the corrupt Punjab Police. The colonel’s son competes with his cherished brother for the love of a woman and discovers that her choice colors his life with unexpected darkness as well as light. In matters of power and money and the heart, Mueenuddin’s characters struggle to choose between paths that are moral and just and more worldly choices that allow them to survive in the systems of caste, capital, and social power that so tightly grip their culture. Intimate and epic, elegiac and profoundly moving, This Is Where the Serpent Lives is a tour de force destined to become a classic of contemporary literature.

This Is Where the Serpent Lives

Papillon Noir / kuratiert von Benjamin Lacombe

Im Jahr 2064 regieren Hexen totalitär über eine gespaltene Gesellschaft, in der nur die Kinder leben dürfen, die immun gegen das Schmetterlingsvirus geboren wurden. Simone und Carolina erinnern sich an das uralte Tagebuch, das einst in einer Bibliothek entdeckt wurde. Darin war die Rezeptur für ein Gegenmittel aufgeführt. Carolina, die Erwählte, und Simone haben Jahre mit der Suche nach dem verlorenen Manuskript verbracht, es ist ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit, um das Heilmittel zu finden, das die Menschheit retten könnte. Dieses auch visuell atemberaubende Werk mit den transluziden Seiten verbindet Prosa mit illustrierten Sequenzen zu einem fesselnden Leseerlebnis. Werden Simone und Carolina die Menschheit aus dem Griff des Totalitarismus retten können?

Die Erwählte

Die Hexen von Venedig

Horst Thode präsentiert eine fiktionale, dystopische ­Version der Wiedervereinigung unter umgekehrten ­Vorzeichen - was wäre gewesen, wenn?
 

 Für Millionen Bundesbürger stellten sich in den Tagen der Wiedervereinigung Fragen wie: 'Was wird aus mir? Was wird aus uns? Wie werden die neuen Machthaber rea­gie­ren?' Der Protagonist gerät in diesen Tagen trotz größter Vorsicht in Haft und beschreibt in einem Erzählstrang seine Erfahrungen rund um die verstörenden und willkürlichen Erlebnisse mit der Justiz der neuen Deutschen Demo­kra­tischen Republik. In einem zweiten Erzählstrang erfahren wir in einer Rückblende über seine Kindheit und Jugend. Durch einen erzählerischen Kunstgriff laufen diese beiden Erzählstränge zum Ende des Romans zu einem virtuosen Finale zusammen.

Roman

Die Wiedervereinigung im spiegelnden Spiegel

The Horizon

Ein verheerender Krieg hat dem Jungen alles geraubt, das ihm einst wichtig war. Ruinen ragten wie stumme Mahnmale in den Himmel, und seine Heimat glich einem Friedhof, auf dem auch seine Mutter ihre letzte Ruhe gefunden hat. Ohne einen Blick zurück und ohne ein klares Ziel vor Augen, brach der Junge zu einer Reise ins Ungewisse auf. Er durchstreifte trostlose Landschaften und wurde Zeuge unaussprechlicher Gräuel, die der Krieg hinterlassen hatte. Eines Tages kreuzte er zufällig den Weg eines jungen Mädchens. Instinktiv erkannten die Kinder, dass in ihrer beiden Herzen der gleiche Schmerz widerhallte. So beschlossen sie, weiterzuziehen, weiter und weiter, dem fernen Horizont entgegen ...

The Horizon 1

Power, Corruption, Violence and Oligarchy

The Economics and Politics of Poverty in Africa

Why Big Labor moved to the right— and the fight ahead for the left to win back America’s working class Unions helped construct the American middle class, defeat Jim Crow, and advance progressive rights, but in Trump’s America, the labor movement is changing. In Big Labor's Big Shift, journalist Nathan Bomey explores how Big Labor and the working class are no longer an automatic ally of the American left. Fueled by decades of economic decline, political disillusionment, and cultural disenfranchisement, new politically nebulous and economically populist leaders in the movement are building a powerful new movement based on class warfare that prizes wage and benefit gains over traditional progressive priorities. Through original reporting and first-hand interviews, Bomey traces key events that have led to this political shift. Bomey reveals:<ul><li>At the Teamsters, president Sean O’Brien is cozying up to Donald Trump and blasting Democrats as tools of big business, even showing up at the Republican National Convention to deliver his message.</li><li>At the United Auto Workers, president Shawn Fain is seizing an opportunity to break the free trade consensus in Washington. The devout Christian, who wields religious rhetoric from the stump, is aligning with the Trump White House on tariffs and blasting Democrats for aggressively pursuing electric vehicles to fight climate change.</li></ul> Bomey shows how the two interconnected phenomena represent a massive political realignment—not just along cultural and nationalism lines, but of the working class itself away from its historic roots in the Democratic party. Urgent and compelling, Big Labor's Big Shift encapsulates the fight for the soul of the union movement.

Why Unions Left Democrats

Big Labor's Big Shift

"Wer ums bloße Überleben kämpft, kann sich nicht organisieren."

Es rumort in den Landen, nicht nur, weil die Innere Sicherheit gewaltsam gegen vermeintliche Feinde der Strahlenden Stadt vorgeht. Währenddessen stellt sich Janus immer öfter die Frage, ob das dubiose Angebot von vor knapp sechs Monaten halten wird.

Da ist der Fall, den er wenige Tage vor Ablauf der Frist erhält, eine willkommene Ablenkung. Der Gehilfe des Bistros Tonya's wird direkt an der Mauer erschossen aufgefunden und im Trio nehmen sie die Ermittlungen auf. Die Wege führen sie durch Alt Wien und stellen Janus vor die Frage, wem er in dieser Welt noch vertrauen kann.

Strahlende Stadt 2 - Widerstand ist der zweite Teil einer Trilogie und wie auch sein Vorgänger ein abgeschlossener Krimi, der jedoch eine überspannende Handlung weiterführt. Teil 3, und damit auch der Abschluss, soll im Herbst 2027 erscheinen.

Widerstand

Strahlende Stadt II

'Bang on the money' Guardian 'Reads like a financial thriller' New Statesman 'Astonishing' Irish Times 'Read this if you want to know who precisely is to blame for, well, everything' Oliver Bullough<h4>A thrilling, eye-opening investigation into private equity, a secretive wing of the finance industry that is so relentlessly destructive, it could have been created to undermine our way of life </h4> You don't know their names, but they own the house you rent. They own your hospitals, nurseries and care homes, the media you consume and the companies you work for. They even own the tools your union uses to fight back. Business is a contest - and they say their people are built to win. But when does competition become a struggle to the death?For decades, private equity firms have infiltrated every corner of modern life. Wielding debt as a weapon, they push vital services into crisis. Their cover story: that this is merely the 'creative destruction' essential to growth. Old-school capitalists say they're dismantling everything that made our economies work.In The Asset Class, reporter Hettie O'Brien penetrates a hidden empire of billion-dollar deals and covert financial warfare. From Copenhagen to San Francisco, Barcelona to the Yorkshire Dales, she follows the money, the ideological roots and the trail of destruction. What she finds is chilling: private equity isn't just reshaping the economy - it's selling out the foundations of Western society.The new owners think they can hide in the shadows. But the owned are fighting back. 'Financial journalism at its best . . . utterly terrifying' Peter Oborne 'Rollicking' Nicholas Shaxson 'Dazzling' Ha-Joon Chang 'Essential' Grace Blakeley 'Powerful and necessary' Mariana Mazzucato 'Deftly lifts the curtain on a murky world of greed and destruction' Danny Dorling

How Private Equity Turned Capitalism Against Itself

The Asset Class

A brilliant exploration of the phenomenon of prediction markets that asks: what happens when democracy becomes another commodity? Prediction markets are sweeping the world, fundamentally changing the nature of gambling - and the very ways in which we attempt to divine the future.Posed as binary 'Yes/No' questions about future events, prediction markets allow any difference of opinion - whether on pop culture or politics, wars or assassinations - to be financialised. A regulatory minefield with moral implications that divide nations, governments and bettors, they have proved as effective at accurately predicting the timing of missile strikes as they have at calling the outcomes of elections.But are these markets really a new phenomenon? And what does it mean when those tasked with safeguarding democracy hold financial stakes in its volatility?From Renaissance Rome, where merchants wagered on papal conclaves, through nineteenth-century London's wartime coffee house gossip, to the Pentagon's ill-fated terrorism futures exchange and blockchain-based betting on Polymarket today, The Big Bet tells the gripping five-hundred-year story of a permissive regime that no one designed and no one voted for.Drawing on deep expertise, Michael Auerbach examines how these markets are changing our world, and what they mean for the future where democracy becomes just another commodity to be priced and traded. Because prediction markets are not an anomaly - they are the logical endpoint of a society that has applied market capitalism to every aspect of life. And in a world where everything is a wager and nothing is off limits, knowing where the chips will fall matters more than ever.

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