{"product_id":"9781526158758","title":"Running the Family Firm","description":"Author: Laura Clancy\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781526158758\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Oct 2021\u003cbr\u003ePages: 312\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn recent decades, the global wealth of the rich has soared to leave huge chasms of wealth inequality. This book argues that we cannot talk about inequalities in Britain today without talking about the monarchy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRunning the Family Firm\u003c\/i\u003e explores the postwar British monarchy in order to understand its economic, political, social and cultural functions. Although the monarchy is usually positioned as a backward-looking, archaic institution and an irrelevant anachronism to corporate forms of wealth and power, the relationship between monarchy and capitalism is as old as capitalism itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book frames the monarchy as the gold standard corporation: The Firm. Using a set of case studies  the Queen, Prince Charles, Prince Harry, Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle  it contends that The Firm's power is disguised through careful stage management of media representations of the royal family. In so doing, it extends conventional understandings of what monarchy is and why it matters.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46830027767966,"sku":"ADS-9781526158758","price":59.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781526158758.jpg?v=1778558328","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781526158758","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}