Ben Kodres-O'Brien, Author at Public Seminar

How a Financial Times journalist became a prominent critic of globalization

In my interview with Rana Foroohar, we discuss her childhood and professional trajectory, and discover how she came to formulate the ideas that comprise her economic vision...

Capitalism

Is Capitalism in Crisis, Dying, Dead — or Very Much Alive, for Better or Worse?

In search of an elusive concept

August 27, 2020 • by Ben Kodres-O'Brien

In 2014, a Museum of Capitalism opened for the first time, as if to commemorate a dying form of life. “The museum began just as capitalism ended,” declared the wall text for the most recent iteration of the travelling museum, at The New School in New York in fall 2019: ...