Race, Profit, and Algorithms: How iBuyers Leverage Neighbourhood Inequality
How do algorithm-driven business models interact with historical patterns of segregation, property devaluation, and racial capitalism? Wonyoung So addresses this question in new research into iBuyers—a new class of real estate actors in the United States. Read on!
How green bonds hit the ground: Notes from Brazilian agribusiness
A new financial tool has emerged with the promise of meeting both sustainability goals and investors’ appetite for new assets: green bonds. In this blog post, Vanessa Perin explains how green bonds intersect with Brazil’s agribusiness sector and landscapes to produce unintended effects.
Financialised capitalism and emerging economies
How does finance work through global production networks to produce highly unequal economic realities? Read more about the work of Jeff Powell and co-authors on financialised capitalism to find out.