Will Davies spoke to Lisa Adkins and Martijn Konings, co-authors (with Melinda Cooper) of The Asset Economy. They discussed various aspects of the book, from the nature of assets, the role of housing as a source of class division, the rising status of the household under neoliberalism, and prospects for ‘millennial socialism’.
Read on:
- ‘Class in the twenty-first century: asset inflation and the new logic of inequality‘ – Lisa Adkins, Melinda Cooper & Martijn Konings
- ‘Inheritance, not work, has become the main route to middle-class home ownership‘ – Lisa Adkins & Martijn Konings, The Guardian
- ‘Covid life and the asset economy’ – Lisa Adkins & Martijn Konings
- Progress in Political Economy – blog at University of Sydney
- Inequality created a political generation gap. Which party will bridge it? – Keir Milburn
- ‘Against responsibility‘ – Will Davies review of Melinda Cooper’s Family Values in London Review of Books
- Assetization: Turning things into assets in technoscientific capitalism – open access e-book, edited by Kean Birch and Fabian Muniesa
- ‘Intergenerational Inequality? Labour, Capital and Housing through the ages‘ – Brett Christophers
- ‘Succession Economics: Sustaining Prosperity Beyond Death‘ – Will Davies, CUSP Working Paper
- ‘Movements of Counter-speculation’ – William Callison interviews Michel Feher, LA Review of Books
- ‘Grey Power: Towards a Political Economy of Older Voters in the UK‘ – Joe Crisp & Nick Pearce
- ‘Bloody Furious‘ – Will Davies review of Keir Milburn’s Generation Left in London Review of Books
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