Benjamin Braun is a political scientist and Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.

November 6, 2021

Analysis

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Tracing the rise and the politics of asset manager capitalism

In mid October 2021, when BlackRock revealed its third quarter results, the asset management behemoth announced it was just shy of $10 trillion in assets under management. It’s a vast sum, “roughly equivalent to the entire global hedge fund, private…