Robert Kuttner: Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism? | The New School

The event is sponsored by The New School's Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA) with special thanks to Demos, W.W. Norton and Co., Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Russell Sage Foundation for their support.

“Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism?” is a new book by Robert Kuttner, a journalist, writer, co-founder and current co-editor of The American Prospect, and one of five 1986 co-founders of the Economic Policy Institute.

Kuttner will join with with New Yorker financial writer John Cassidy to discuss how global capitalism is responsible for the harm to workers’ prospects in the past few decades, rather than the usual suspects of trade, immigration and technological change - and how the backlash against the results is destroying democracy. To reverse this cycle, Kuttner argues for more democracy and less capitalism.

y limiting workers’ rights, liberating bankers, allowing corporations to evade taxation, and preventing nations from ensuring economic security, raw capitalism strikes at the very foundation of a healthy democracy. Kuttner’s book outlines how a progressive economic politics and program can repair democracy and fill this vacuum.

“Kuttner brilliantly brings together two strands of thought: explaining both the economics and politics of global capitalism and how our society has abandoned core principles of fairness and equality. The rise of inequality helped pave the way for Donald Trump—a figure out of step with basic American values. Kuttner reminds us of the urgency with which we need to get back to a more just society.” -- Joseph E. Stiglitz

Location:
Wollman Hall, 5th Floor
65 West 11th Street, New York, NY 10011
Monday, April 30, 2018 at 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

[alloomis]

first, where is the democracy you fear for? outside of helvetia, of course. there is none. elective oligarchy is prevalent, but quite a different thing. you may well fear for it, as people have no respect for a system that cares nothing for them. and that is almost everyone, nowadays. even 'comfortable' middle classes are becoming restive.

[klubsvetnikov]

Many great thoughts by both, but in the end they turn out to be to centristic. The comments on MMT were just unworthy of a heterodox thinker. And as if democracy existed in the USA or UK?! Faith in Democrats who have the same masters as Republicans, praising Pelosi - this was devaluating the whole thing...