{"product_id":"running-the-family-firm-by-laura-clancy-9781526158758","title":"Running the Family Firm","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn recent decades, the global wealth of the rich has soared, leaving huge chasms of wealth inequality. This book argues that we cannot discuss inequalities in Britain today without mentioning the monarchy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRunning the Family Firm\u003c\/i\u003e explores the postwar British monarchy 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\n\n\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\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47427723428076,"sku":"9781526158758","price":69.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781526158758.jpg?v=1774767402","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/running-the-family-firm-by-laura-clancy-9781526158758","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}