April 10, 2024

Events

Profit and Power

On April 23, 2024, join us for a discussion on profits, prices, and the green energy transition, on the occasion of Brett Christophers’s new book The Price Is Wrong, featuring:

  • BRETT CHRISTOPHERS, professor at Uppsala University and author of The Price Is Wrong and Our Lives In Their Portfolios.
  • MELANIE BRUSSELER, senior researcher at Common Wealth
  • KYLE CHAN, postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University
  • Moderated by ROBINSON MEYER, founder and executive editor of Heatmap

Register here.

Filed Under

  • climate
  • economics
  • finance

    • Further Reading

    December 3, 2025

    Analysis

    Careless Profit

    Spain's nursing homes in crisis

    David Palomera

    As elder care in Spain has expanded, it has also become a lucrative and financialized industry, putting returns before the needs of residents. How might it be reformed?

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    November 28, 2025

    Interviews

    Brazil and the World System

    An interview with Brazil's Minister of Finance

    Fernando Haddad

    As the world’s seventh largest economy, poised between Western and Eastern power blocs, Brazil is at the forefront of contemporary debates on geopolitics, development, and the green transition. Its political…

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    November 20, 2025

    Analysis

    The Chainsaw and the Miracle

    Milei's structural adjustment program.

    Mercedes D'Alessandro

    Argentina's midterm elections have given Milei a renewed mandate to slash the state, working in concert with the IMF and US Treasury.

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