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Climate capitalism: can market-based solutions save the planet?

Hosted by the Ralph Miliband Programme

In-person and online public event (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building)

Speakers

Professor Brett Christophers

Professor Daniela Gabor

Ann Pettifor

Chair

Professor Jonathan Hopkin

Professor Jonathan Hopkin

As the climate emergency intensifies, the efficacy of market-based solutions is under growing scrutiny. Can capitalism solve a crisis of its own making?

Is "green growth" a path to transformative change, or will it solely legitimise and perpetuate systemic inequalities? Join us for a thought-provoking discussion on the opportunities and challenges of market-based solutions in bringing about a livable and fair future for all.

Meet our speakers and chair

Brett Christophers is Professor in Human Geography, at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research in Uppsala University. His research ranges across the geographical political economy of Anglo-American capitalism, with particular interests in finance, competition, law, land, housing, and climate change.

Daniela Gabor (@DanielaGabor) is Professor of Economics and Macro-Finance at the University of the West of England, Bristol. She holds a PhD in banking and finance from the University of Stirling (2009). Since then, she has published on central banking in crisis, on the governance of global banks and the IMF, and on shadow banking and repo markets.

Ann Pettifor is a political economist, author and public speaker. Her latest book, The Case for the Green New Deal, was published in hardback by Verso in 2019. She writes and speaks on the global financial & economic system, on money, monetary policy (in particular interest rates), and on the UK economy.

Jonathan Hopkin (@jrhopkin) is Professor of Comparative Politics in the Department of Government and European Institute at LSE. He is the author of Party Formation and Democratic Transition in Spain and Anti-System Politics: The Crisis of Market Liberalism in Rich Democracies.

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