Joseph Baines

Joseph Baines is a lecturer in International Political Economy at King’s College London. He has published in journals such as The Journal of Peasant Studies, Review of International Political Economy, Politics & Society, and New Political Economy.

Fossil fuel firms and agricultural traders cash in on the war in Ukraine

Critics suggest investors are promoting the disruption that they then benefit from – while also slowing a move towards green energy

By Joseph Baines

/ 6 May 2022

Fossil fuel firms and agricultural traders cash in on the war in Ukraine

The sector secretly profiting from the cost of living crisis

No one’s talking about the UK’s hugely profitable energy distribution networks. They should be publicly owned

By Joseph Baines, Sandy Brian Hager and Adam Peggs

/ 5 May 2022

The sector secretly profiting from the cost of living crisis

Commodity trading: the shadowy industry destroying the planet

Commodity traders wreak havoc on global markets and profit from ecological and social devastation. Can they be stopped?

By Sandy Brian Hager and Joseph Baines

/ 4 May 2021

Commodity trading: the shadowy industry destroying the planet