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Adam Smith wrote in The Wealth of Nations that, “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages.” Adam Smith’s writings—in large part—formed the intellectual rationale for capitalism. From March 24-31, we’ll do some Critical Thinking on Capitalism and explore the legacy and future of capitalism’s winners and losers.


New Models for Economic Prosperity

Alfredo Sfeir-Younis — President and Founder of the Zambuling Institute for Human Transformation; Former Economist with the World Bank
The Cost of Consumerism

Joseph Heath — Undergraduate Director and Associate Chair of Philosophy at the University of Toronto; Co-author of The Rebel Sell: How the Counterculture Became Consumer Culture
Cinematic Critique of Capitalism

Milos Stehlik — Director of Facets Multimedia; Worldview Film Contributor
Philosophical Critique of Capitalism

Sylvère Lotringer — Professor of French Literature and Philosophy at Columbia University; Founder and General Editor of the Publishing House Semiotext(e); Author of the Co-edited Volume Hatred of Capitalism: A Semiotext(e) Reader
Creating a World Without Poverty

Dr. Muhammad Yunus — Managing Director of Grameen Bank in Dhaka, Bangladesh; 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Winner; Author of Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism
Capitalism and the Environment

James Gustave Speth — Author of The Bridge at the End of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability; Dean of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University; Co-founder of the National Resources Defense Council
Reassessing What We Value

Thomas Homer-Dixon — Chair of Peace and Conflict Studies at the Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Toronto; Author of The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization
Global Capitalism and Poverty

Doug Cassel — Director of the Center for Civil and Human Rights at the University of Notre Dame Law School; Worldview Human Rights Contributor
What is Neoliberalism?

Wendy Brown — Professor of Political Science at the University of California-Berkeley Author of the essays Neoliberalism and the end of Liberal Democracy AND American Nightmare: Neoliberalism, Neoconservatism, and De-Democratization
The Global Neoliberal Agenda

Naomi Klein — Journalist; Author of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Income Inequality

Doug Henwood — Editor and Publisher of Left Business Observer; Author of After the New Economy: The Binge and the Hangover That Won't Go Away; Host of weekly radio program for WBAI in New York
Creative Capitalism

Bill Gates — Microsoft Founder and Chairman; Co-chairman of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Excerpt from January 25th, 2008 Speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland Book referenced in Gates speech: The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits by CK Prahalad