The Baillie Gifford debacle
A literary world rocked by a counterproductive meme protest
Over last the year, a small anonymous protest collective calling itself Fossil Free Books has been trying to convince Baillie Gifford, a massive Scottish investment firm with about $400 billion (US) in assets under management, to divest from the energy business and Israel’s “defence, tech, and cyber-security industries.”
Rather than directly protest the …
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