Seeing like an asset manager

Abstract

Asset managers have assumed a position of unprecedented power and influence in the control of essential infrastructures of social life, with broadly negative ramifications. But as the commentaries assembled here all insist, it did not – and does not – have to be this way. In this reply, I discuss the potential, as I see it, for the world to be otherwise, offering a rather pessimistic prognosis.

Keywords

• asset management
• housing and real estate
• infrastructure
• nature and climate
• political economy