Economic anthropologist @OxfordSBS. Billion-dollar family businesses, family offices, ownership, Islamic finance. Pursuing more than profit in capitalism.
London, England
Joined November 2014
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Bridget Kustin retweeted
"No question is more thorny for family companies than succession — the risks that handing the keys over to heirs can be a path to mediocrity." @SkollCentre Fellow @BKustin in the @FT on family businesses & why a toolkit for responsible ownership is much needed.
ft.com/content/2c71da25-7b12…
Bridget Kustin retweeted
Fantastic to hear from @garyseconomics at today's #WealthManagement conference with the Good Ancestor Movement. Gary founded GarysEconomics, an educational YouTube channel, after quitting his trader job at Citigroup in Canary Wharf in 2008.
theguardian.com/business/202…
Bridget Kustin retweeted
A frosty start to an exciting day here in Oxford - we'll be joining @BKustin & @steph_brobbey from the Good Ancestor Movement, for the inaugural conference on ‘Wealth Management’s New Imperatives’ @OxfordSBS ❄️
ALT The Oxford skyline from south park blanketed in frost.
.@SpearsMagazine is not reading the room. One day after #COP27, they're shilling seats on a semi-private jet service with a £250 coupon, for the start of ski season. There won't be a ski season left. We are in a climate emergency.
Bridget Kustin retweeted
Professor @MaryaBesharov, Peter Flavel, CEO of @CouttsandCo, & Dr @BKustin speaking about the new business models for wealth management at today’s @SkollCentre Insights for Action seminar 💡
Bridget Kustin retweeted
You hear a lot about the gigification and proletarianization of the academy but I did not know that part-time faculty at the New School, who went on strike today for a fair contract, make up *87 percent* of instructors at the university. hellgatenyc.com/new-school-o…
This Friday! Anthropological perspectives on private wealth/private banking in an era of wealth inequality
🎟️ More in person tickets added! Join us for the second seminar in our 'Insights for Action' series with @BKustin, Peter Flavel, & @MaryaBesharov 👇
sbs.ox.ac.uk/events/new-busi… @OxfordSBS
Several private banks have become a @BCorporation or @BCorpUK, and yet w/many people in the UK food insecure & unable to heat their homes, it’s time to consider how wealth management & private banking can change to address these crises. Join me & the CEO of Coutts…
Join us for the second seminar in our 'Insights for Action' series! @BKustin, Peter Flavel, & @MaryaBesharov will be discussing how ownership can be at the heart of economic injustice, but also how it can offer a potential corrective to it 👇
sbs.ox.ac.uk/events/new-busi…
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Bridget Kustin retweeted
UPDATE—Just learned that Eli Lilly executives are raging and furious at losing $20 billion in market cap from this stunt with @TwitterBlue. It’s too bad they don’t see their own damn insulin price gouging as the actual problem. Karma @LillyPad, karma.
Bridget Kustin retweeted
It costs corps like @LillyPad ~$70 to produce a year’s supply of insulin. Yet the avg annual price of insulin went from $2,864 in 2012 to $5,705 in 2016 to $12K in 2022😳
A 17,142% markup isn’t inflation & it isn’t supply chain issues—it is 100% corporate greed.
#MakeInsulinFree
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Please join us in congratulating @amengualmatt, @abhaney, @Abrarchaudhury, @MJohnstoneLouis, @BKustin, @AkshayMangla, @Bagputys, @paulosavaget & @marcventresca!
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YIKES! 100 sustainability linked bonds worth ≈€70 billion were sold to investors in Europe, the most mature market for sustainable finance products. The majority (incl by @CHANEL) are tied to climate targets that are weak, irrelevant, or already achieved shorturl.at/jAUZ4
Also a hugely powerful move. The non transparency of the speakers’ fees economy is shocking to me. @lphalippou81 is one of the only academics I’ve met who’s website is transparent about this. Of course these fees shape incentives and ultimately what people do/do not say & do
I donated the speaker fee for this event to Indigenous Land Defenders in Mexico. If you are able to, please join me in redistributing some money to the frontline groups who are often sidelined by funders but are truly transforming the world: gofundme.com/f/indigenous-co…
Bridget Kustin retweeted
Instead of “going public,” you could say we’re “going purpose.” Instead of extracting value from nature and transforming it into wealth for investors, we’ll use the wealth Patagonia creates to protect the source of all wealth.
Read Yvon's letter at pat.ag/Ownership
Bridget Kustin retweeted
Hey, friends, we just gave our company to planet Earth. OK, it’s more nuanced than that, but we’re closed today to celebrate this new plan to save our one and only home. We’ll be back online tomorrow.
nytimes.com/2022/09/14/clima…
Big politics to open #spears500live from @robertamsterdam: Trump’s an idiot, US & U.K. arms oppressing multiple African populations, law an oppressive bludgeon in the US & UK, Africa is the future, “we” can’t “turn Africa over to China & the Russians.” I’m def not bored!
Biggest celebrity private jet CO2 emitter according to one estimate: @taylorswift13. A creative use of public data for public naming & shaming. Next up: journalists to back this data up, and financial penalties to convince people to give up private planes
weareyard.com/insights/worst…