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.

News & Announcements

November 22, 2019

Phelps's Berlin Wall Speech, published by Project Syndicate, is now available in full on our website

Edmund Phelps's speech in Berlin on the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, which was published as an Op-Ed in Project Syndicate, is now ... Read More

November 18, 2019

"Willful" by Richard Robb

Richard Robb has published a groundbreaking new book: "Willful: How We Choose What We Do." The book is a revelatory alternative to the standard econom... Read More

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