The fifth lecture in our Offshore Talks series with Katharina Pistor, presenting her book "The Law of Capitalism and How to Transform It".
The book explores a fundamental yet often overlooked dim...
“When current account surpluses are massive, as China's are, that money has to find someplace to go. And so China's buying stuff all over the place,” says CFR expert Sebastian Mallaby, examining th...
This Cambridge expert tells it how it is. It's time to cap or tax wealth - external motivations arn't the key driver of innovation anyway!
“Start with the thing you have the most agency over," Eric Ries says. "You can decide the purpose of your work.” We built this system, he urged, so we can rebuild it better.
Watch Eric Ries's full...
Balenciaga is selling a chips bag clutch for CAD $2,550.
A luxury handbag designed to look like something we normally throw away.
This is why overconsumption feels so normal now. Fashion brands ...
Elon Musk is one of the most influential figures of our era. He remade the space, car, social media, and AI industries. He shaped the Ukraine War. He helped put Donald Trump back in office and b...
Do Global Value Chains (GVCs) really ‘boost incomes, create better jobs, and reduce poverty’? Join us for this Sussex Development Lecture, with guest speaker Professor Benjamin Selwyn, who will dis...
Is it true that Global Value Chains (GVCs) 'boost incomes, create better jobs, and reduce poverty', as commonly claimed? In this compelling book, Selwyn, Bernhold, and Leyden show how the mainstrea...
How much luxury spending is too much?
Every month, thousands are spent on shopping sprees, beauty, date nights, drivers, and lifestyle extras. At the same time, many communities are still fighting...
We bought into the image.
He profited from it.
Luxury branding sold us aspiration, status, exclusivity, and the idea that worth can be worn.
Behind that image is one of the richest family fortunes...
“Sadly, at least in the United States, corporate capital has become essential for political campaigns,” says Rebecca Patterson, CFR senior fellow and cohost of The Spillover podcast, discussing the...
“It’s not pure altruism, but it’s not pure selfishness either,” says Sebastian Mallaby, CFR senior fellow and co-host of The Spillover podcast.
Watch or listen to the latest episode of The Spillov...
Is it really possible to build a successful business with only 10 Dinars? Tayssir Chtioui, founder of "Chkarti," did it. In this episode of Connect Cast, she shares how the COVID-19 pandemic brough...
Bate Papo na Saúde – Alternativas ao Capitalismo: Esta edição do Bate Papo na Saúde fala sobre as Alternativas ao Capitalismo. O programa foi gravado no XVIII Congresso de Medicina Social e Saúde C...
Billionaires. They should be objects of scorn rather than envy. While they ride around in their super-yachts and private jets, producing the climate-damaging pollution of entire nations, they’re do...
Crazy Town: Episode 110. Et Tu, Bhutan? Cryptocurrency and Late-Stage Capitalism
Maximize profits, exploit nature, hoard money, and, like Buzz Lightyear, grow the economy to infinity and beyond! That’s the modern economic playbook. But for decades, one renegade country has take...