Martin Wolf CBE, Chief Economics Commentator & Associate Editor at The Financial Times and one of the most influential and respected multi award winning Economics and Financial journalists in the world will be speaking to The Oxford Guild and Oxford Economics Society from 5.30pm on Monday 28th November (8th wk) on ‘The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism’, a very exciting and topical issue. The event is FREE & OPEN TO ALL – PLEASE REGISTER YOUR INTEREST HERE: https://goo.gl/forms/j3FUw1AU6EA2Xg9y1
The central role played by populism in the political arena of Western societies raises important questions concerning the interaction of economic and political systems, as well as the sustainability of current liberal democratic structures. What is the nature of the marriage between capitalism and democracy? Can it endure? If so, what changes are needed? These are the questions to be addressed in this lecture, which will discuss the complex history of the relationship between free-market capitalism and democracy, consider how the current stresses between the two have developed and assess whether and how this relationship might be restored to health.
Martin Wolf was awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in 2000 “for services to financial journalism”. Wolf was joint winner of the Wincott Foundation senior prize for excellence in financial journalism in both 1989 and 1997. He won the RTZ David Watt memorial prize in 1994. In 2000. Wolf is a regular participant in the annual Bilderberg meetings of politicians and bankers. He is visiting fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, a Special Professor at the University of Nottingham and an honorary fellow of the Oxford Institute for Economic Policy. He has been a forum fellow at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos since 1999. Wolf has been named in the top 100 lists of global thinkers by Prospectand by Foreign Policy magazine. Lawrence H. Summers has called him “the world’s preeminent financial journalist” Mohamed A. El-Erian, former CEO of the world’s largest bond investor PIMCO, said Wolf is “by far, the most influential economic columnist out there”. Nobel Prize Winner Paul Krugman wrote of him that “Wolf doesn’t even have a PhD. And that matters not at all; what he has is a keen sense of observation, a level head, and an open mind.” Prospect magazine described him as “the Anglosphere’s most influential finance journalist”, while economist Kenneth Rogoff has said, “He really is the premier financial and economics writer in the world”.
The event is 100% FREE & OPEN TO ALL! DO NOT MISS OUT!
WHEN: 5.30pm, Monday 28th November (8th wk)
WHERE: Manor Road Building Lecture Theatre
REGISTER your interest here: https://goo.gl/forms/j3FUw1AU6EA2Xg9y1
