Adrienne Buller

Adrienne Buller is the Founding Editor of The BREAK—DOWN, a new media initiative focused on the political economy of climate and ecological crisis. She is the author, with Mathew Lawrence, of Owning the Future (Verso, 2022) and The Value of a Whale (Manchester University Press, 2022), which won the 2024 Eric Zencey Prize in Ecological Economics. She is an Associate Fellow at Common Wealth.

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UK
Energy
Fossil Fuels
Briefing
2025-01-10
10.01.2025

Public Coordination of a Just North Sea Transition

The winding down of fossil fuel production in the North Sea is inevitable and necessary. We need public control over these assets to ensure a timely and just transition.
UK
Energy
Report
2024-02-12
12.02.2024

The Greatest Generation: How Public Power Can Deliver Net Zero Faster, Fairer and Cheaper

A new public green energy generating company should be the vehicle for the just transformation of the UK’s electricity system.
UK
Fossil Fuels
Interactive
2023-11-17
17.11.2023

Bond Villains: How the Bond Markets Fan the Flames of the Fossil Fuel Industry

A new database in partnership with the Toxic Bonds network, highlighting the role of corporate bonds in financing the fossil fuel industry.
UK
Finance & Pensions
Report
2023-08-03
03.08.2023

Undefined Benefit: Fixing the UK Pensions System

The UK's financialised pensions system is marked by inequality, insecurity and instability. We require a radical reimagining to build a system fit for purpose.
UK
Energy
Report
2023-03-07
07.03.2023

A Wholesale Transformation: Evaluating Proposals for Electricity Market Reform

The wholesale market is not fit for purpose. We assess the alternatives.
UK
Fossil Fuels
Briefing
2023-02-02
02.02.2023

Shell's Q4 Results: Big Oil Won't Deliver the Green Transition

UK
Energy
Briefing
2023-01-16
16.01.2023

National Grid: Ownership and Key Financial Indicators

UK
Finance & Pensions
Report
2022-06-21
21.06.2022

Asset Manager Capitalism: Where Next?

UK
Finance & Pensions
Briefing
2022-05-12
12.05.2022

Explainer: What's the Deal with Asset Management

UK
Finance & Pensions
Report
2022-04-08
08.04.2022

The Passive Revolution

The explosion of passively-managed investments over the past two decades – and in particular in the wake of the 2008 Financial Crisis – marks a major shift in two defining forces in the global economy: corporate governance and control over investment allocation.
UK
Finance & Pensions
Video
2022-03-21
21.03.2022

Video: Asset Manager Capitalism

How the asset management industry is reshaping our economy.
UK
Finance & Pensions
Report
2021-09-07
07.09.2021

Under New Management: Share Ownership and the Growth of UK Asset Manager Capitalism

Over the past several decades, asset management firms have surged to become the dominant shareholders in corporations throughout the global economy. This growth has been accompanied by a significant concentration within asset management itself.
UK
Fossil Fuels
Interactive
2021-07-29
29.07.2021

Who Owns the North Sea?

An interactive database showing who owns oil and gas licenses in the North Sea.
UK
Finance & Pensions
Report
2021-03-29
29.03.2021

Goliath and Goliath: Asset Management and Ownership in the UK Economy

Project launch: examining ownership concentration in the FTSE100
UK
Health & Care
Report
2021-03-20
20.03.2021

Caring for the Earth, Caring for Each Other: An Industrial Strategy for Adult Social Care

Care work is green work.
UK
Finance & Pensions
Report
2020-12-20
20.12.2020

"Doing Well By Doing Good"? Examining the Rise of ESG Investing

Macroeconomics
Report
2020-06-01
01.06.2020

Redesigning Tax for a Just, Green Recovery

The UK’s tax system promotes inequality and fails to prevent environmental degradation. Here’s how we can change it.
UK
AI & Tech
Report
2020-05-18
18.05.2020

Democratic Digital Infrastructure

Building a 21st century digital infrastructure should be a key goal of a bold economic recovery plan after Covid-19.
UK
Corporate Power
Report
2020-04-17
17.04.2020

Commoning the Company

Rewriting company rules and building public wealth for a fairer, stronger post-crisis economy.
UK
Transport
Report
2020-04-02
02.04.2020

Signal and Switch: Toward a More Resilient Rail System for the UK

14 out of 17 major rail franchises are partly or wholly state-owned – but only two of these by the governments in the UK.
UK
Transport
Briefing
2020-03-22
22.03.2020

Emergency Landing: How Public Stakes Can Secure a Sustainable Future for Aviation

This briefing note examines the recent corporate behaviour of the aviation sector – and argues that any bailout of the sector must be contingent on ensuring job security, action on climate change, and a strategic public ownership stake.
UK
Politics
Video
2020-03-02
02.03.2020

Blueprint for a Green New Deal

From asset management to care work, trade to local government initiatives, what are the next steps for a GND?
UK
AI & Tech
Briefing
2019-12-09
09.12.2019

Full Fibre Futures: Democratic Ownership and the UK's Digital Infrastructure

Reimagining the internet will require new models of democratic ownership. A Common Wealth report on the future of broadband.
PerspectivesUK
Finance & Pensions
2023-05-15
15.05.2023

Will Pensioners Suffer If We Restrain Corporate Excess?

On our pensions and their entanglement with shareholder payouts.
PerspectivesUK
Macroeconomics
Politics
Energy
2023-02-17
17.02.2023

Launch Essay: Common Wealth Perspectives

Introducing Common Wealth's new blog.
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