Our new financial masters
How asset managers work in the shadows – and shape all of our lives.
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Brett Christophers
Brett Christophers is a political economist and the author of Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World. His book The New Enclosure won the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize in 2019.
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