Brett Christophers

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Brett Christophers is a geographer. He is a professor at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research at Uppsala University.[1]

He received a BA from the University of Oxford in 1993, an MA from the University of British Columbia in 1995, and a PhD from the University of Auckland in 2008.[1]

Books[edit]

  • Positioning the Missionary: John Booth Good and the Confluence of Cultures in Nineteenth-Century British Columbia (University of British Columbia, 1998)
  • Envisioning Media Power: On Capital and Geographies of Television (Lexington Books, 2009)
  • Banking Across Boundaries: Placing Finance in Capitalism (2013)[2]
  • The New Enclosure: The Appropriation of Public Land in Neoliberal Britain (Verso, 2018)[3]
  • Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It? (Verso, 2020)[4]
  • Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World (2023)[5]
  • The Price Is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet (Verso, 2024)[6]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Brett Christophers - Uppsala University, Sweden". www.katalog.uu.se.
  2. ^ Pollard, Jane; Leyshon, Andrew; Henderson, George; Christophers, Brett (April 7, 2014). "Book review symposium: Locating banks, tracking money: Banking across Boundaries: Placing Finance in Capitalism (2013)". Progress in Human Geography. 38 (2): 319–329. doi:10.1177/0309132513500759 – via CrossRef.
  3. ^ "The New Enclosure by Brett Christophers review – the sale of public land in neoliberal Britain | Politics books | The Guardian". amp.theguardian.com.
  4. ^ Howard, Mark R. S. (December 7, 2023). "Book Reviews: Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It?". Review of Radical Political Economics. 55 (4): 728–732. doi:10.1177/04866134231183739 – via CrossRef.
  5. ^ "Our Lives in Their Portfolios — owners in the shadows". www.ft.com.
  6. ^ "The Price Is Wrong by Brett Christophers review – why capitalism can't save the planet | Business and finance books | The Guardian". amp.theguardian.com.