The Financial Foundations of Capitalism and Widely-Shared Wealth
MPIfG Lecture
- Date: Jan 26, 2022
- Time: 05:00 PM - 06:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: Carolyn Sissoko
- Bristol Business School, UWE
- Sign up: info@mpifg.de
- Location: online
Is capitalism a remarkable mechanism for growing a society with widely shared wealth, or is it a tool for transferring wealth to a select fewIn her talk, Carolyn Sissoko will suggest that it is both, and that our current economic structure is post-capitalist.
More importantly, she will argue that a careful history of
capitalism can tell us what financial and legal infrastructure is necessary in
order for a society to promote widely shared wealth. The challenges then are
political and environmental: Is there the political will to put this
infrastructure into place on a global scale? And is it possible to design this
infrastructure so that it does not worsen the climate crisis?