- Hardcover: 1376 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins Business; (Reissue) edition (18 Jun 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0002559137
- ISBN-13: 978-0002559133
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16 x 6.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 577,287 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"the results of his survey are delivered in such a delicious dry and irreverent style as to make it difficult to move on"
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A lucid, authoritative and comprehensive account of who owns the physical and financial wealth of the UK. How did the various people and institutions come to own the assets of the nation? What is their share of the assets worth? What are they doing with their share? What does it all mean for the liberty and prosperity of the country?
The National Wealth reveals the social, economic and financial workings of Britain. It tells us who has the money, and how they get it; and, ultimately, who owns Britain today.
The author describes the draining away of money and power from the great estates of the realm such as the Crown, the Aristocracy, the Church and Oxbridge; the aggrandisement of the State in the post-war socialist era, followed by the greatest transfer of ownership in Britain since the Dissolution of the Monasteries – the privatisation of the nationalised industries; the origins of the greatest personal fortunes and the psychology of the truly rich; the rise of the industrial Fat Cats and the new professional elites of the City and the Law. The book concludes with a probing analysis of the relationship between the PLC (the dominant form of social organisation in Britain today) and the great institutional investors who have become the most influential repositories of the national wealth.
A magnificent summation of Britain at the turn of the century, a panoramic and trenchantly expressed overview of the division of the spoils, and a searching examination of the gap between rhetoric and reality in public and private affairs.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A future classic,
By Tom Rose (Lancashire, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The National Wealth: Who Gets What in Britain (Hardcover)
This book is very long, and packed with facts and figures. At a casual glance it might seem like an unreadable reference work, but in reality it is both easy to read and absorbingly interesting. It is like one of those powerful novels that you just can't put down. The facts are fascinating and revealing yet previously little known, and everything is painstakingly researched and referenced. But this is far more than a catalogue of wealth. It is a complete social and economic history of Britain. With his huge breadth and depth of learning, and a powerful intellect, Hobson shows how human strengths and weaknesses interacted with historical movements and historical accidents to produce the complicated mess that is modern Britain. He is completely irreverent towards all parts of the British establishment, but reserves his most potent criticism for our over-powerful, massively interfering, state. I suspect there is much here that the powers that be would prefer us not to know, and they will certainly be unhappy to have their true beliefs and motives so clearly exposed and explained.Buy it!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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A comprehensive and brilliant work,
By A Customer
This review is from: The National Wealth: Who Gets What in Britain (Hardcover)
Mr Hobson's latest book is a triumph and exeptionally well researched.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Each dip in is like a brain boosting injection,
By A Customer
This review is from: The National Wealth: Who Gets What in Britain (Hardcover)
If you're unfamiliar with the details behind the headlines or just want to know what's really going on in any part of the economy (from the football clubs through the aristocracy, business educational institutions - you name it)- in simple, concise readable language you should be dipping into this book to clarify things - it does so outstandingly.
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