Capitalism's existential crisis
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Capitalism’s is facing an existential challenge – Chrystia Freeland
2016 is when Oxfam predicts the collective wealth of the “1%” will finally eclipse that of everyone else. Letting inequality prevail will inevitably generate massive social & political destabilization, & that everybody (the 1% included) has a strong interest in avoiding that.

• The financial markets are signaling deep unease, not least at the world they themselves helped build.
• Prosperity, peace, co-existence & recognition of mutual interdependencies are too easily taken for granted.

 
Getting this story out is critical to changing politics. We need a recipe to avoid disaster.

• If you imagine a world organized in which the measures proposed by Thomas Piketty in his best-seller ‘Capital in the 21st Century’ can be enacted, then you can see how the problem will be solved.
• It would require a total political reorganization, with global power that can effectively control capital – this would produce victory.

 
The true problem is to create the conditions for his measures to be actualized.
 
This 2-part course looks at capitalism’s challenge in 2016, & at the green shoots 2 years after Piketty. 

Moderator: Pat Simke

Dates and Time: Tuesdays, February 23 and March 15 2-4 PM

Location: OISE, 252 Bloor Street West, Room TBD

Maximum Size of Class: 25

Enrolment: Course cancelled