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Fred Block // Democratizing Finance
June 10, 2022 @ 17:00 - 18:30
The 10th session of the Predistribution and Property-Owning Democracy online seminar, will take place June 10th, at 5pm (Lisbon time). In this session we will be discussing a chapter of ‘Democratizing Finance’ entitled ‘Financial Democratization and the Transition to Socialism’. Fred Block, our invited speaker, will make a brief presentation of the main ideas of the chapter, followed by a reply by a discussant to be announced and a debate with the participants.
Fred Block (speaker)
Fred Block is Research Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Davis. His most recent book is an edited volume in the Real Utopia Series founded by Erik Olin Wright, Democratizing Finance: Restructuring Credit to Reform Society (Verso). He has also written Capitalism: The Future of an Illusion (California) and with Margaret R. Somers, The Power of Market Fundamentalism (Harvard).