The Center on Capitalism and Society

Watch Now: Progressivism, Socialism, Nationalism
Video presentations from the Center's 17th annual conference are now available! The conference, "Progressivism, Socialism, Nationalism: What Room for Innovation and 'Creative Destruction'? For Economic Justice to the Least Advantaged? For Teaching Youth the Good Life?" was held October 7th, 2019. Panelists and discussants were Benyamin Appelbaum, Gerald Auten, Ryan Bourne, Viveck Chibber, Pinelopi Goldberg, Jeffrey Gordon, Jonathan Haidt, Hian Teck Hoon, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Lina Khan, Charles Kolb, Margaret Levi, Leif Pagrotsky, Edmund Phelps, Thomas Philippon, Richard Robb, Richard Sennett, Michelle Pannor Silver, David Splinter, Joseph Stiglitz, Ryan Streeter, Bhaskar Sunkara, Andreas Wimmer and Gylfi Zoega. Click here to view.
New Journal Issue: The Economic Consequences of Mr. Trump
Explore the latest issue of Capitalism and Society on our new Journal website. The issue features papers by Robert Z. Aliber, Barry Eichengreen, Roman Frydman, Jason Furman, Geoffrey Heal and Edmund Phelps on the economic impact of the Trump administration's policies on areas such as jobs, taxes, trade, growth, the environment, health, and satisfaction. Click here to read the issue in full online (plus explore related video from our 16th annual conference in September 2018).
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The Center on Capitalism & Society
The Center on Capitalism and Society brings together leading scholars in economics, business, finance and law to study capitalist institutions, their effectiveness and their weaknesses, in order to get some answers to such basic questions about capitalism—its working, its dynamism and the instability it may cause, its inclusiveness or lack thereof and its role in a democracy.

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October 15, 2019

Michael Liss on "Progressivism, Socialism, Nationalism"

At 3 Quarks Daily, author Michael Liss has published a thorough piece on the Center on Capitalism and Society's October 7th annual conference, "Progre... Read More

September 25, 2019

"Who Owns Poverty?" Book Launch

On Tuesday, September 24th, Center Director Edmund Phelps introduced Martin Burt, Founder & CEO of Fundacion Paraguya, at the launch for his new b... Read More

September 09, 2019

Celebrating Peter Jungen

Center Advisory Board Honorary Chairman Peter Jungen held a celebration in honor of his 80th birthday in August. Professor Phelps gave a speech at the... Read More

July 22, 2019

Rana Foroohar tying the decline of innovation in the US, UK, France and Italy to the loss in modern values

Rana Foroohar's FT online column this morning, "Is slow growth a crisis of values?" brilliantly discusses the thesis in Mass Flourishing by Edmund Phe... Read More