This article develops a basic typological framework for understanding and analyzing financial risk from a political economy perspective. It is motivated by growing awareness of the contemporary significance of financial risk and by the fact that the political-economic literature on such risk...

In this landmark book, the author of The New Enclosure provides a forensic examination and sweeping critique of early-twenty-first-century capitalism. Brett Christophers styles this as ‘rentier capitalism’, in which ownership of key types of scarce assets - such as land, intellectual...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Influences, Approaches, and Arguments -- 1. Competition under Capitalism -- 2. Exchanging Production for Markets -- 3. Law as Leveler -- 4. Designs on Monopoly -- 5. The Revival of Competition -- 6. Remaking Monopoly for the Twenty-First Century -- Coda:...

"What if our understanding of capitalism and climate is back to front? What if the problem is not that transitioning to renewables is too expensive, but that saving the planet is not sufficiently profitable? This is Brett Christophers' claim. The global economy is moving too slowly toward...