A World to Win: Asset Manager Capitalism w/ Adrienne Buller and Ben Braun
Jacobin Radio
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🗓️ 29 July 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
This week, Grace speaks to Adrienne Buller and Ben Braun. Adrienne is a senior research fellow at the think tank Common Wealth, and Ben is a political scientist at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies. They recently co-authored a paper entitled ‘Under new management: Share ownership and the rise of UK asset manager capitalism‘.
With Grace, Adrienne and Ben discuss the rise of the big three asset managers, who really makes the big decisions in today’s corporations, and whether workers can ever hope to use their power as shareholders to change capitalism.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to a world to win, a podcast from Chippee magazine. |
| 0:16.4 | I'm Grace Blakely bringing you your weekly dose of socialist news, theory and action |
| 0:20.2 | from around the world. |
| 0:22.1 | This week I speak to Adrian Biller and Ben Braun. |
| 0:24.8 | Adrian is a senior research fellow at Commonwealth and Ben is a political scientist at the Max Planck |
| 0:29.8 | Institute for the Study of Societies. |
| 0:32.2 | Together they recently wrote a paper for Commonwealth, Under New Management, Share ownership and |
| 0:37.2 | the rise of UK Asset Manager Capitalism. |
| 0:40.3 | We discuss the rise of the big three asset managers who really makes the big decisions in today's |
| 0:44.9 | corporations and where the workers can ever hope to use their power as shareholders to |
| 0:49.7 | change capitalism. |
| 0:51.8 | Thanks as always to our amazing patrons who make the show possible. |
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| 1:16.8 | Another big thank you to Reverend and the makers who've let us use their track heavyweight champion of the world as our intro and outro music. |
| 1:22.2 | And now here is Adrian and Ben explaining exactly what the big asset managers actually do. |
| 1:33.4 | Hello Adrian and Ben and thank you so much for joining me on this episode of a world to win. |
| 1:37.7 | How are you both doing today? |
| 1:39.2 | Very good. Thank you Grace. Nice to be on here. |
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