One of the most recent developments in Manchester City Centre, Deansgate Square, includes a luxury penthouse flat with an asking price of £2.5 million. The housing developer has christened it the Engels penthouse.
Asset management companies live off the wealth created by others. They buy not to produce things of use, but to profit from squeezing the assets or selling them on…
This issue we review two books which show clearly where the wealth that workers create is going…
26 July 2015
All parliamentary parties hold the view that very rich people are good for the economy. By implication workers can only hope to have crumbs from the table. That’s never been a convincing argument – and this book from Andrew Sayer shows how the opposite is true.
