Accumulation mode and political interests of alternative finance and asset management: are they the same actors? Do they want the same thing? Alt-Finance: How the City Bought Democracy, edited by Marlène Benquet and Théo Bourgeron, London, Pluto Books, 2022, 176 pp., 14.99 £ (paperback), ISBN 9780745346854

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 The data underpinning the analyses of financial donations to the Leave and Remain campaigns are publicly available here: https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/who-we-are-and-what-we-do/elections-and-referendums/past-elections-and-referendums/eu-referendum.2 Les Echos, no. 23803, 30 september 2022.3 https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/presidentielle-americaine-pour-qui-roule-la-silicon-valley-3999073Additional informationNotes on contributorsMarlène BenquetMarlène Benquet is a Tenured Research Associate at the French National Centre for Scientific Research in Paris Dauphine University. She is an economic sociologist. She is the Deputy Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Institute of Social Sciences (IRISSO). She as published articles in journals includind Economy & Society, New Political Economy, Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, Revue Française de Sociologie, Revue Française de Socio–Économie or Sociologie du travail. She has authored five books including Alt–Finance: How the City Bought Democracy (Pluto Books) in 2022. She is also a Louis Bachelier Institute Fellow, the head of the sociology department at The Boetie lnstitute and a member of the French Journal of Socio–economics and work, gender and society's editorial board.