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The authors provide an original definition of the discipline and make a strong case for its vital importance in understanding the dynamic interconnections, movements, and emerging trends shaping our globalised world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEconomic Geography\u003c\/i\u003e addresses the key theories and methods that form the basis of the discipline, and describes its \"communities of practice\" and relations to related fields including economics and sociology. 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Today, our new financial masters are asset managers, like Blackstone and BlackRock. And they don't just own financial assets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe roads we drive on; the pipes that supply our drinking water; the farmland that provides our food; energy systems for electricity and heat; hospitals, schools, and even the homes in which many of us live—all now swell asset managers' bulging investment portfolios.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs the owners of more and more of the basic building blocks of everyday life, asset managers shape the lives of each and every one of us in profound and disturbing ways. In this eye-opening follow-up to \u003cem\u003eRentier Capitalism\u003c\/em\u003e, Brett Christophers peels back the veil on \u003cem\u003easset manager society\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAsset managers, he shows, are unlike traditional owners of housing and other essential infrastructure. 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