The Global Casino: Ann Pettifor and Adrienne Buller in Conversation

The global market in money – housed in the offshore ‘shadow’ banking system – holds $217 trillion in financial assets and operates beyond the reach of any nation’s taxman. Asset managers, private equity firms, and pension and sovereign wealth funds scoop up the world’s savings for investment and manage them as they choose, unaccountable to politicians or the citizens who elect them. But societies and gov­ernments can take back control of the global financial system. We have done it before and can do it again. Indeed, it is imperative that we do so if we are to manage the twin threats of climate breakdown and biosphere collapse.

Join Ann Pettifor and Adrienne Buller as they unpick the murky underpinnings of this global system, and what to do next.

Ann Pettifor is Director of Prime (Policy Research in Macroeconomics) and a Fellow of the New Economics Founda­tion. She has honorary doctorates from Newcastle University, Helsinki University and SOAS. She is known for predicting the global financial crisis of 2007–9 and for her leadership of a campaign that resulted in massive debt cancellation for more than thirty countries – Jubilee 2000. She is the author of The Coming First World Debt Crisis, The Production of Money and The Case for the Green New Deal. Her Substack is System Change.

Adrienne Buller is a political economist and author on climate, finance, and inequality. She is founder and host of The BREAK—DOWN, a platform on capitalism, nature, and climate, launched with Common Wealth. Her publications include The Value of a Whale - On the Illusions of Green Capitalism and Owning the Future - Power and Property in an Age of Crisis (with Mathew Lawrence).

The discussion will be followed by an audience Q&A and book signing. Your ticket includes a complimentary glass of wine.

Tickets: £10 General Admission, £8 Foyalty Member / £22 Book and Ticket, inc. a copy of Global Casino (RRP £16.99)
Venue: The Auditorium (Level 6) at Foyles, 107 Charing Cross Road*

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Foyles, 107 Charing Cross Road, London, United Kingdom

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