Postcapitalism [in Amsterdam]

Lecture delivered at De Balie, 25 October 2016

We’re living through the most exciting period of technological innovation for at least 200 years — and the worst ten years of economic history since the 1930s. The Bank of England governor, Mark Carney, put it starkly in March at the G20:

“The global economy risks becoming trapped in a low growth, low inflation, low interest rate equilibrium.”

The only thing to disagree with there is the word equilibrium. Economic crisis spilled over into social crisis; now we have a crisis of multilateral institutions

via https://medium.com/mosquito-ridge/postcapitalism-in-amsterdam–3d8848a9f275