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“... Around​ fifteen years ago, a new term entered the climate change lexicon: stranded assets. The concept was straightforward enough. If global warming is to be kept from getting out of hand, there is a limit to the amount of greenhouse gases that can be emitted into the atmosphere. Yet the fossil fuel reserves currently held by the world’s energy and mining companies would, if extracted and burned, emit far more than this amount ...”

“... another ‘sector’ among many, selling their wares in a marketplace like humble shopkeepers. Brett Christophers, in The Price Is Wrong, adds to this list a potentially more drastic symptom: a failure on the part of policymakers to understand the energy transition on which the future of the planet hinges. The operating assumption of energy economists ...”

“... indirectly by us, we had never been consulted. In other words, our attitudes were typical of what Brett Christophers identifies as the ‘lack of engagement, recognition and attention’ that has characterised popular attitudes to the sale of public land. By Christophers’s calculation, the transfer of land from state ...”

“... agencies, even though they involve risk being passed to the public while profits are privatised. Brett Christophers’s Our Lives in Their Portfolios analyses the mechanisms through which private equity firms and asset managers have devoured the public infrastructure on which our lives depend, in service of private profit.In June​ 2009, President ...”

“... children and grandchildren via gifts and inheritance, thus reproducing inequality. The geographer Brett Christophers has argued that beneath the veneer of intergenerational conflict lies a familiar pattern of class conflict, deepened by the more ruthless form of capitalism that emerged at the end of the 1970s. Capital now extracts a much higher ...”

“... fiddle), and with a far greater sense of urgency. Political economists including Daniela Gabor and Brett Christophers have questioned whether this project of ‘de-risking’ green investment, by pumping vast public subsidies into privately owned ventures, is really ‘post-neoliberal’ at all. Fund managers are being offered a huge fiscal carrot, and ...”

“... painted by Stagnation Nation is familiar from the work of many political economists, such as Brett Christophers and Jodi Dean, who have tracked the drift of contemporary capitalism towards ‘rentierism’ and even ‘neo-feudalism’. What these terms suggest is that economies like Britain’s have effectively abandoned the pursuit of prosperity ...”

“... When irritated, the wealthy threaten to leave the city. In response, Knowles quotes the economist Brett Christophers, who points out that the real money left long ago for ‘its offshore boltholes’. The super-rich are already on the high seas, navigating between safe harbours where their mega-yachts will not be impounded. The General Theory of ...”