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Alexis Brassey

Alexis Brassey is completing a PhD in Psychology at the University of London, UK. He is also Managing Director of Cramer Pelmont Solicitors, Senior Partner of The Schools Enterprise Partnership and Managing Director of Liverpool Residential Ltd. He formerly worked for ten years in the City of London as Assistant Vice-President of Citibank, Director of Lehman Brothers and Head of Yen trading at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation. He is a qualified fund manager, teacher and holds an BSc (Hons) in Finance and Economics from Manchester University and an MA in Philosophy from Kings College London.

    Ethics, Capitalism and the Managerial Aristocracy

    We are all capitalists, in the sense that we may point to one thing or another and call it ‘mine’. The Marxist notion that ‘private property is theft’ is all but dead outside of the most extreme and chronically naive positions.
    It is often said that communitarian or communist ideology which espoused the principle of ‘common [...]