Our lives in their portfolios : why asset managers own the world
(2023)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
332.6/CHRISTOPHERS,B
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
London ; New York : Verso, 2023
DESCRIPTION
x, 310 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781839768989, 9781839768996, 1839768991, 1839768983, 9781839768989
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Introduction -- Asset-Manager Society: The Basics -- How It Came to Be -- Mapping Asset-Manager Society -- The Costs -- Who Gains? -- The Future
"Buying and selling life-supporting assets at a dizzying pace, the crux of the asset manager business model is not long-term investment and careful custodianship but the pursuit of quick profits for themselves and their investors. 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"--