I found Minn's Cold War in Welfare in a second-hand bookshop in Lund, Sweden, while doing my master's. I was not studying pension funds then, and honestly, it remained unread on the many bookshelves at different apartments I have lived in since then.
Reading it now when I'm delving into the relationship between welfare and climate, it couldn't be a better companion. It shows how the privatisation of pension funds under the Anglo-American model does not deliver for the common economy and is heavily concentrated to benefit a few.
We have millions of pensioners relying on the speculative nature of large corporations buying and selling their own stocks, while leaving unfunded so many urgent projects for the climate transition.
