Corbonism and the English Common Law

2min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

I don't think it was able to really main stream conversations around brion's rial legacy in terms of its legal and financial apparatus. It didn't normalize, you know, understandings of why london commercial court is the jurisdiction of choice for corporate disputes all round the world. 70 % of cases in the london commercialCourt are concerning companies that neither of which are registered in any british jurisdiction. And may me put those connections alile more forcefully into the public domain. I think this is a real moment.

Featuring Kojo Koram on his brilliant book Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire. How neoliberalism reorganized colonial capitalist plunder to survive the Third Worldist challenge, and then boomeranged back into the British metropole—a history obscured by rendering “decolonization” into a symbolic culture war battle. Check out How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT by Elena Conis hachettebookgroup.com/titles/elena-conis/how-to-sell-a-poison/9781645036753/ Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig