Brett Christophers teaches at Uppsala University. His most recent book is The Price Is Wrong.
When it’s capitalism that’s the problem, and not markets, the only alternative is post-capitalism. But the central fact of the climate crisis is that there is very little time, and the scale of the...
These days, the debate about the balance of private and public investment in the Global South has been settled in favour of private capital. Privately owned mobile and internet networks, potable water...
Public land became surplus as the result of the state’s determination to shrink itself. At the heart of this project lay a brazen deceit.
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