Webinar

What Future for Capitalism in America?

Friday, April 16, 2021
Maxim Shemetov / Reuters
Speaker
Anne C. Case

Director, Research Program in Development Studies, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs

Presider
Benn Steil

Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations

from Center for Geoeconomic Studies Roundtable Series in International Finance and Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies

Anne Case, professor emeritus of economics and public affairs at Princeton University, and co-author, most recently, of Deaths of Despair and The Future of Capitalism, discusses the policy challenges America faces in maintaining a commitment to private enterprise and open global markets while improving living standards and opportunities for its less well-off.

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