Political economist, researcher and writer Dr Kate Bayliss brings us her powerful exposé of how finance turns our basic human needs – water, energy and housing – into assets. In her new book Privatising Humanity, Kate shows how investment banks and hedge funds target our essential services. When it comes to investments in these sectors, we the end-users and taxpayers fund the shareholder profits. We have no alternatives. Kate shares the devastating consequences of this model, which is driving inequality to levels not seen in a century.