{"product_id":"privatising-humanity-kate-bayliss-9781526182982","title":"Privatising Humanity: How Our Essential Human Needs Became Financial Assets","description":"\u003cp\u003eA powerful exposé of how finance turns our basic human needs into assets. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe have entered a new era of turbo-charged financial extraction. Having amassed huge reserves, global finance capital is seeking out fresh areas for profitable investments. Virtually all aspects of our lives are now targeted by someone seeking to make a profit. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Privatising humanity, Kate Bayliss shows how wealthy investors, including asset managers, target our essential services. When it comes to investments in these sectors, shareholder profits are funded by us, the end-users and tax-payers who simply wish to meet our basic human needs for water, warmth and shelter. We have no alternative but to pay into these structures that often generate massive returns for investors and dysfunctional systems for society. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUnpacking the details of these processes in three sectors in the UK - water, energy and housing - Bayliss exposes the harmful consequences of this model, which is contributing to deepening inequality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kate Bayliss\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 152618298X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781526182982\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/26\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.56lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.71d","brand":"Kate Bayliss","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48487428096255,"sku":"9781526182982","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5923486b-7bc2-435c-99f2-72b62c053064.jpg?v=1778060421","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/privatising-humanity-kate-bayliss-9781526182982","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}