Brett Christophers on OUR LIVES IN THEIR PORTFOLIOS
Author Brett Christophers sat down with Verso to talk about his latest book, Our Lives in Their Portfolios – available now!
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2985-our-lives-in-their-portfolios-why-asset-managers-own-the-world
About OUR LIVES IN THEIR PORTFOLIOS by Brett Christophers:
Banks have taken a backseat since the global financial crisis over a decade ago. Today, our new financial masters are asset managers, like Blackstone and BlackRock. And they don't just own financial assets.
The roads we drive on; the pipes that supply our drinking water; the farmland that provides our food; energy systems for electricity and heat; hospitals, schools, and even the homes in which many of us live-all now swell asset managers' bulging investment portfolios.
As the owners of more and more of the basic building blocks of everyday life, asset managers shape the lives of each and every one of us in profound and disturbing ways. In this eye-opening follow-up to Rentier Capitalism, Brett Christophers peels back the veil on "asset manager society."
Asset managers, he shows, are unlike traditional owners of housing and other essential infrastructure. Buying and selling these life-supporting assets at a dizzying pace, the crux of their business model is not long-term investment and careful custodianship but making quick profits for themselves and the investors that back them.
In asset manager society, the natural and built environments that sustain us become one more vehicle for siphoning money from the many to the few.
BRETT CHRISTOPHERS is Professor in the Department of Social and Economic Geography at Uppsala University. A political economist and economic geographer, he is the author or coauthor of five previous books.
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“The scale of the achievement of New Left Review and Verso, which turns forty this year, is now clear.” – Nation
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https://www.versobooks.com/products/2985-our-lives-in-their-portfolios-why-asset-managers-own-the-world
About OUR LIVES IN THEIR PORTFOLIOS by Brett Christophers:
Banks have taken a backseat since the global financial crisis over a decade ago. Today, our new financial masters are asset managers, like Blackstone and BlackRock. And they don't just own financial assets.
The roads we drive on; the pipes that supply our drinking water; the farmland that provides our food; energy systems for electricity and heat; hospitals, schools, and even the homes in which many of us live-all now swell asset managers' bulging investment portfolios.
As the owners of more and more of the basic building blocks of everyday life, asset managers shape the lives of each and every one of us in profound and disturbing ways. In this eye-opening follow-up to Rentier Capitalism, Brett Christophers peels back the veil on "asset manager society."
Asset managers, he shows, are unlike traditional owners of housing and other essential infrastructure. Buying and selling these life-supporting assets at a dizzying pace, the crux of their business model is not long-term investment and careful custodianship but making quick profits for themselves and the investors that back them.
In asset manager society, the natural and built environments that sustain us become one more vehicle for siphoning money from the many to the few.
BRETT CHRISTOPHERS is Professor in the Department of Social and Economic Geography at Uppsala University. A political economist and economic geographer, he is the author or coauthor of five previous books.
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VERSO BOOKS is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world, publishing one hundred books a year.
“Anglo-America's preeminent radical press.” – Harper’s
“The scale of the achievement of New Left Review and Verso, which turns forty this year, is now clear.” – Nation
“A rigorously intelligent publisher.” – Sunday Times
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