https://justmoney.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/02_financialization-and-inequality_2018_12_14_PCS_Capitalism_Conference_WCC2036B_1100_NS.mp3Over the past few decades, the advanced capitalist countries have become increasingly financialized against a backdrop of deepening wealth and income inequality. How do we conceptualize and analyze the distributive consequences of the rise of finance? What do recent political upheavals, including the Trump presidency and Brexit, mean for the status quo of financialized capitalism? And what role, if any, can public policy play in tackling the un-equalizing effects of the contemporary system of money and credit?
Roundtable
Mark Blyth – Brown University Gerald Epstein – University of Massachusetts, Amherst Rana Foroohar – Financial Times Natascha van der Zwan – Leiden University Rebecca Spang – Indiana University
Commentator: Sandy Brian Hager – City, University of London
