Hints and tips:
...The Price Is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet by Brett Christophers (Verso) Markets and the private sector cannot solve the climate crisis: rather than the cost of transitioning to renewables...
...APRIL Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World by Brett Christophers (Verso) In this follow-up to Rentier Capitalism, Christophers turns his attention to the new masters of the universe...
...Brett Scott, a former broker turned “financial anthropologist”, looks ahead to a world of only cashless transactions in Cloudmoney (Bodley Head, May) and asks who wins — and who loses....
...From the 1910s, the American home economist Christine Frederick recommended the adaptation of mechanical engineer Frederick Winslow Taylor’s notions of scientific management and efficiency, which were intended...
...The #MeToo movement gained strength but Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed as a Supreme Court judge to outrage after a bitter election battle....
...There are times (many times) when Bourne’s writing is unworthy of its score (taken at an exhilarating lick by Benjamin Pope/Brett Morris and the orchestra, led by Gina McCormack’s lustrous violin)....
...With more than 200 pieces – a blockbuster before the age of blockbusters – it included work by the great en plein air painters Arthur Streeton and Frederick McCubbin, who will feature in the RA’s September...
...Brett Hryb, senior portfolio manager at MFC Global added: “Nobody wants to be particularly long or short going into a long weekend.”...
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