Panel discussion

The Principle of Capitalism

mit Saskia Sassen, Joseph Vogl

Sat, Apr 5, 2014
8 pm
Day ticket: 8€/6€, two day ticket: 12€/10€, single ticket: 5€/3€
City - Religion - Capitalism, The biggest Stock Exchange in the world / Portal of the banking house of the Medici familiy, 15th century, Ad Meskens, CC BY-SA 3.0/ Giovanni Dall ’ Orto, CC BY-SA 3.0, Collage

Saskia Sassen and Joseph Vogl will journey back to the beginnings of the markets, examining their largely obscure historical facets and tracing their lines of development up to the global structures of the present.
Moderated by Bernd M. Scherer & Alexander Kluge


The discussants

Will Davies is a Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London. His work looks at the history and politics of neoliberalism, both as a set of ideas and as a form of policy-making.

Zofia Lapniewska is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Centre for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany. Her areas of scientific interest are feminist economics, new institutional economics and urban studies.