{"id":4934,"date":"2021-05-25T14:08:47","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T13:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/?p=4934"},"modified":"2021-05-25T14:08:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T13:08:47","slug":"dr-albena-azmanova-capitalism-on-edge-a-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/2021\/05\/25\/dr-albena-azmanova-capitalism-on-edge-a-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Albena Azmanova &#8211; Capitalism on Edge: A Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Within the <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondthefutureofwork.rapoportcenter.org\/\">conference<\/a> \u201cBeyond the Future of Work: New Paradigms for Addressing Global Inequality\u201d, <a href=\"https:\/\/law.utexas.edu\/humanrights\/\">The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice<\/a>, The University of Texas at Austin, School of Law (24 May \u2013 11 June, 2021)<\/p>\n<p>University of Kent scholar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/brussels\/people\/2607\/azmanova-albena\">Dr Albena Azmanova<\/a> and the eminent US economist <a href=\"https:\/\/lbj.utexas.edu\/galbraith-james-k\">James Galbraith<\/a> will debate strategies for post-COVID social transformation, focusing on the work-related contradictions of capitalism, Azmanova identifies in her new book <em>Capitalism on Edge<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>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 <em>Capitalism on Edge<\/em> \u2018the big-think book of our time\u2019 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.project-syndicate.org\/say-more\/an-interview-with-james-k-galbraith-2020-11?barrier=accesspaylog\">interview<\/a>, Project Syndicate, 17 November 2020).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Within the conference \u201cBeyond the Future of Work: New Paradigms for Addressing Global Inequality\u201d, The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/2021\/05\/25\/dr-albena-azmanova-capitalism-on-edge-a-conversation\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51111,"featured_media":4759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4934"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4934"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4937,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4934\/revisions\/4937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}