The Asset Class: How Private Equity Turned Capitalism Against Itself
Autor Hettie O'Brienen Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 sep 2026
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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781399619295
ISBN-10: 1399619292
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 mm
Editura: Orion Publishing Group
Colecția W&N
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1399619292
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 mm
Editura: Orion Publishing Group
Colecția W&N
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Recenzii
A brilliant and penetrating analysis exposing the larceny that powers the private equity industry. This rollicking tale uncovers tricks that are ultimately so simple and brazen that the mind is repelled, and in the process shows a great undertow sapping our economies and feeding public rage
A riveting account of how the Machiavellian men of private finance reveled in the labels of apex beasts. However, so often, as O'Brien forensically documents, there was corruption and deceit at play. As the returns evaporate, as the scandals multiply, The Asset Class deftly lifts the curtain a murky world of greed and destruction
Combining muckraking with moral clarity, Hettie O'Brien tells an utterly original story about how private equity targets people at their most vulnerable, sniffing out weakness to splinter what is left of the postwar social democratic order. Illuminating and infuriating
When Hettie O'Brien investigates, the apex predators of the global economy should rest a little less easy on their Learjets. The Asset Class is part compelling wake-up call and part financial thriller. It informs and inspires fundamental change in equal, elegant measures
A superbly vivid journey through what deserves to be one of the greatest scandals of our age. The Asset Class shows we cannot understand the turbulence and injustice of the present without understanding private equity
The Asset Class is a riveting page-turner; it reads like a thriller that is also deeply educational and masterfully accessible. I will be recommending it to anyone - my students, colleagues, family - who wants to make sense of the murky new owners of their university halls, place of work or utilities provider
In this truly brilliant and deeply disturbing analysis, Hettie O'Brien opens our eyes to the destructive forces of leveraged finance and the investors whose fortunes keep rising thanks to their embrace by governments"
This book provides an excellent account of private equity - how it emerged, spread like wildfire, and eventually stalled - through the stories of the individuals that built the system. More than a tale of financial engineering, it describes how our economies lost their way and surrendered the fate of ordinary people to speculative greed
A brilliant analysis of how private equity has come to dominate key parts of our economies, capturing value from the public while evading responsibility for the risks and costs it creates. O'Brien critically shows how this model of financialised capitalism has undermined the real economy, eroded accountability, weakened the public sector and diminished democratic oversight. A powerful and necessary book
A riveting account of how the Machiavellian men of private finance reveled in the labels of apex beasts. However, so often, as O'Brien forensically documents, there was corruption and deceit at play. As the returns evaporate, as the scandals multiply, The Asset Class deftly lifts the curtain a murky world of greed and destruction
Combining muckraking with moral clarity, Hettie O'Brien tells an utterly original story about how private equity targets people at their most vulnerable, sniffing out weakness to splinter what is left of the postwar social democratic order. Illuminating and infuriating
When Hettie O'Brien investigates, the apex predators of the global economy should rest a little less easy on their Learjets. The Asset Class is part compelling wake-up call and part financial thriller. It informs and inspires fundamental change in equal, elegant measures
A superbly vivid journey through what deserves to be one of the greatest scandals of our age. The Asset Class shows we cannot understand the turbulence and injustice of the present without understanding private equity
The Asset Class is a riveting page-turner; it reads like a thriller that is also deeply educational and masterfully accessible. I will be recommending it to anyone - my students, colleagues, family - who wants to make sense of the murky new owners of their university halls, place of work or utilities provider
In this truly brilliant and deeply disturbing analysis, Hettie O'Brien opens our eyes to the destructive forces of leveraged finance and the investors whose fortunes keep rising thanks to their embrace by governments"
This book provides an excellent account of private equity - how it emerged, spread like wildfire, and eventually stalled - through the stories of the individuals that built the system. More than a tale of financial engineering, it describes how our economies lost their way and surrendered the fate of ordinary people to speculative greed
A brilliant analysis of how private equity has come to dominate key parts of our economies, capturing value from the public while evading responsibility for the risks and costs it creates. O'Brien critically shows how this model of financialised capitalism has undermined the real economy, eroded accountability, weakened the public sector and diminished democratic oversight. A powerful and necessary book