Long Reads: Adrienne Buller on the Rise of Asset-Manager Capitalism
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🗓️ 16 July 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Adrienne Buller joins Long Reads for a discussion about "asset-manager capitalism" and the climate crisis. Adrienne is senior research fellow at Common Wealth, a progressive think tank, and co-author of the forthcoming book Owning the Future.
Read Adrienne's review of Trillions here: https://jacobin.com/2022/03/index-funds-blackrock-vanguard-stocks-ownership-democracy-concentration/
And her report for Common Wealth here: https://www.common-wealth.co.uk/reports/asset-manager-capitalism-where-next
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Long Read is sponsored by Haymarket Books. |
| 0:04.7 | This September, Haymarket organizing socialism 2022, the biggest socialist conference in |
| 0:10.2 | North America. |
| 0:11.7 | It runs from September 2 to September 5 in Chicago. |
| 0:15.8 | Speakers like Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Robin Kelly, and David Harvey will be there to discuss |
| 0:20.4 | radical politics, history, and strategy with hundreds of activists. |
| 0:25.0 | You can find it more at socialismconference.org. |
| 0:27.9 | Hello, you're very welcome to Long Read. |
| 0:32.5 | It's a Jacobin podcast where we look in depth at political topics and thinkers. |
| 0:36.8 | My name's Daniel Finn, and the features editor here at Jacobin, and I'll be presenting |
| 0:41.4 | the show. |
| 0:43.2 | At the start of this year, the investment fund BlackRock reached a new peak, with $10 |
| 0:48.5 | trillion in assets. |
| 0:50.8 | BlackRock CEO Larry Fink has become one of the most influential figures in global capitalism. |
| 0:57.0 | For CNBC, Fink's annual leisure to his company shareholders is a news event in itself. |
| 1:02.9 | The head of the world's largest asset manager starts his annual communication with the Russian |
| 1:07.2 | invasion of Ukraine and the impact that the war has had on markets around the world, specifically |
| 1:12.4 | the rate of globalization. |
| 1:14.4 | Here's what he writes, |
| 1:15.4 | I remain a long-term believer in the benefits of globalization and the power of global |
| 1:19.5 | capital markets. |
| 1:21.1 | Access to global capital enables companies to fund growth, countries to increase economic |
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