Within the conference “Beyond the Future of Work: New Paradigms for Addressing Global Inequality”, The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, The University of Texas at Austin, School of Law (24 May – 11 June, 2021)
University of Kent scholar Dr Albena Azmanova and the eminent US economist James Galbraith will debate strategies for post-COVID social transformation, focusing on the work-related contradictions of capitalism, Azmanova identifies in her new book Capitalism on Edge.
She has argued that while the new economy does not generate good jobs for all, we are increasingly reliant on holding a job, but she rejects the two popular strategies for solving this conundrum: active job creation and universal basic income. James Galbraith has called Capitalism on Edge ‘the big-think book of our time’ (interview, Project Syndicate, 17 November 2020).