Webinar : Financialization and the Crisis of Capitalism
Mar 17th 2021
On Mar 20, 2021 at 06:30 PM (IST)

The Rethinking Economics India Network is hosting a four-part series of events on Capitalism and Patriarchy. The opening event is on Financialization and the Crisis of Capitalism. It aims to bring to attention the evolution of capitalism as a global economic system while highlighting the role of financialization, especially in the Global South. Join us for an interactive panel discussion as we engage with themes of macroeconomics, the political economy of finance, the social history of capitalism.

The Speakers

Anwar Shaikh is Professor of Economics at the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science of the New School University. He is an Associate Editor of the Cambridge Journal of Economics and was a Senior Scholar and member of the Macro Modeling Team at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. His books include Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crises; Globalization, and the Myths of Free Trade; and Measuring the Wealth of Nations: The Political Economy of National Accounts with E. Ahmet Tonak.

C.P. Chandrashekar has retired as a Professor of Economics at the Center for Economic Studies and Planning, School of Social Sciences, at the Jawaharlal Nehru University. His research expertise includes applied macroeconomics and developmental economics with a focus on industry and finance. He is a regular columnist for Frontline Magazine and BusinessLine finance daily and the IDEAs.

Anush Kapadia is at IIT Bombay in the Sociology group of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences; he is also an associate faculty with the Centre for Policy Studies at IIT Bombay. He works on the political economy of money and financial systems.

The Organizers

The Rethinking Economics India Network aims to bring together an ecosystem of stakeholders to scale collaborative efforts for teaching, learning and discussion. It looks to impact all those who participate in a society shaped by economic ideas – not just the academic economist, but rather the public at large.

Time

Mar 20, 2021 06:30 PM in Mumbai, Kolkata, New Delhi

Registration

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