sexta-feira, 21 de novembro de 2008

Finance and Labor: Risk, Inequality, and Democracy


The New School

Sanford Jacoby, the Howard Noble Professor of Management
at UCLA's Anderson School of Management, presents a lecture on the future of capitalism.
Professor Jacoby, a historian and economist, discusses his paper, titled "Finance and Labor: Perspectives on Risk, Inequality, and Democracy," in which he argues that social protest and severe populist regulation of the financial industry are likely outcomes of unchecked income and wealth disparities.
This is followed by a discussion with distinguished economists from three walks of life, including government, the labor movement and Wall Street