Brett Christophers

Brett Christophers is a professor of human geography at Uppsala University’s Institute for Housing and Urban Research. He is most recently the author of The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet.

Can We Blame Private Equity for Everything?

Can We Blame Private Equity for Everything? Can We Blame Private Equity for Everything?

Did PE firms make the world worse? Or was it something else?

Nov 20, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Brett Christophers

A Huawei store in Beijing, 2024.

Want to Understand the New Cold War? Look to Huawei. Want to Understand the New Cold War? Look to Huawei.

The tech company has come to symbolize the ongoing struggle between America and China.

Apr 22, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Brett Christophers

A woman passes by posters that read “Enough Vultures—Argentine united in a national cause” in Buenos Aires, 2014.

How the US Courts Rewrote the Rules of International Trade How the US Courts Rewrote the Rules of International Trade

Shaina Potts’s Judicial Territory examines how the American legal system created an economic environment that subordinated the entire world to domestic business interests.

Mar 3, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Brett Christophers

Thousands of truck-sized 30-ton shipping containers are stacked aboard the Hanjin Oslo freighter in the Port of Los Angeles, 2020.

Who Really Suffers When the Supply Chain Is in Crisis? Who Really Suffers When the Supply Chain Is in Crisis?

Peter S. Goodman’s recent book on the pandemic’s effect on global rhythms of supply and demand tries to answer why “the world ran out of everything.”

Jun 18, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Brett Christophers

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