Finance, Politics and Democracy

Calendar
When:
16 February 2023 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
2023-02-16T18:00:00+01:00
2023-02-16T19:00:00+01:00
Where:
Albert Hirschman Centre for Democracy - Auditorium A2, Maison de la paix
Chemin Eugène-Rigot 2A Case postale 1672 CH - 1211 Geneva 1
Switzerland
Finance, Politics and Democracy @ Albert Hirschman Centre for Democracy - Auditorium A2, Maison de la paix

Is finance against democracy? The question has been asked repeatedly. But is it the right way to approach the problem? This keynote lecture explores an analytical framework for addressing it, taking as its starting point the position of the financial world in economy and society. It then considers the forms of interactions between finance and politics that this position entails, before discussing the implications for the functioning of democracy. The lecture takes a long-term historical perspective –the long twentieth century– and focuses on the advanced economies of Western Europe and North America usually associated, though not for the entire period, with established democratic regimes.