Audio Books →Our Lives in Their Portfolios Why Asset Managers Own the World [Audiobook]

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 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.
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.