Survival capitalism and the Big Bang

Culture, contingency and capital in the making of the 1980s financial revolution
Survival Capitalism is a cultural history of the 1980s financial revolution. It ranges in scope across the Thatcher government, the Bank of England, London Stock Exchange and member firms, and Lloyds of London. It offers timely new perspectives on the City of Londons Big Bang reforms as the Conservatives contemplate Big Bang 2.0 in the 2020s.

This book about the Thatcher government and the City of London tells the compelling human story of the people and processes that made Britains 1980s financial revolution. Fusing insider testimony with new archival discoveries, it examines high stakes and networked solutions, and uncovers new objectives that drove reforms. In so doing it demystifies a major shift in capitalism. This has implications for our understandings of government and capitalism, from the way we think about the origins of subsequent financ