Document Type
Article
Publication Date
8-2024
ISSN
2059-5999
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Language
en-US
Abstract
In Our Lives in Their Portfolios, Brett Christophers provides an account of the rise of ‘asset manager society’ – a world in which the infrastructures of public life are converted from public to private ownership. Here I use Christophers’ analysis to comment on growing calls for asset manager investment in climate adaptation. The asset manager business model requires ever-escalating returns, a poor fit with the now unavoidable losses that climate change promises to bring.
Recommended Citation
Madison Condon,
Limits to Asset Manager Adaptation
,
in
10
Finance and Society
199
(2024).
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