Risking Together

"'Dick Bryan and Mike Rafferty look at how the financialisation of the global economy has swept up the lives of ordinary people who had nothing to do with playing the financial markets. In the process, their lives have come to mirror the risks of stock exchange, derivate and currency market speculation.' -- Neville Spencer * Greenleft Weekly * “Bryan and Rafferty present a detailed exposition of the ways in which households based primarily in the Anglosphere have been transformed from relative oases of economic stability in the post-1945 period to vehicles of risk and thereby the means of profit for certain types of investor.” -- Michael Keaney * Review of Radical Political Economics * ‘Dick Bryan and Michael Rafferty offer a provocative caveat in Risking Together, arguing that wealth and income inequality do not fully, or even best, explain the financial distress of middle class Australians ... It is therefore an invaluable addition to the cultural economy canon, an introduction suitable for both undergraduate university students and the workers, consumers and citizens whose story it tells.’ -- Carolyn Hardin * Journal of Cultural Economy * ""Bryan and Rafferty’s object of analysis in Risking Together is of great sociological, psychological, and social interest … The analysis provided throughout the book is comprehensive and insightful. The examples of risk-shifting are abundant and extensive.” -- Mohamed Mourad * The Economic and Labour Relations Review *"