Welcome to Season II of "Dissecting capitalism: Its past, present and future"!

This project aims to organise a webinar series on the dominant ideology/economic system - capitalism. In our living memory, the financial crisis was first to remind us of the limitations of existing socio-economic system built upon the capitalistic foundations. With the beginning of the 2020s and the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the devastating war in Ukraine along with decades-old wars in the middle-east and Africa, economists and social scientists have started to study capitalism with different ontological lenses and empirical data. During this once in a century pandemic, the financial markets have continued their historic rise, in the presence of rising poverty, inequality and systemic disarray around the world. The dominant socio-economic system is somewhat failing to respond adequately to any large-scale crisis. As a result, we question the strengths and limitations of capitalism more than ever. It has become a common point of discussion whether the current capitalist society is the best economic system for all. Another point of discussion is the reforms needed for capitalism to ensure socio-economic welfare.

With several channels of discussion on various platforms amongst people of all backgrounds, it has become a common endeavour of the economists and social scientists to attempt to "rethink" or "dissect" capitalism to analyse the gaping flaws of capitalism in its present form and to suggest means of reform and transformation. This webinar series brings together distinguished scholars of economics, philosophy, social policy and law to dissect capitalism with their unique theoretical and empirical lenses.


Format:

The presentation(s) will be typically 45 minutes long, followed by 20-40 minutes of discussion and Q&As.

Event page: https://ysi.ineteconomics.org/project/6231fcb8b39779025c4fc6f2

Organisers: Sattwick Dey Biswas, & Aneesha Chitgupi

Contact us at:
southasia@youngscholarsinitiative.org 

Move to the next section to select sessions and register!

Previous season of dissecting capitalism: https://ysi.ineteconomics.org/project/6137561f4da9eb1aeaeb2586