Like other institutions founded in the wake of the recent economic turmoil, the goal of Rethinking Capitalism is to reconsider the liquidity crisis and imagine what comes after. What distinguishes our project is the foundational premise that exploring the full range of “capitalist futures” requires a critical, multidisciplinary understanding of derivatives, speculation and financial markets.
The Project aspires to create conceptual and empirical tools of economic practice and regulation, both locally and globally, that give capitalism a future that may diverge from its past.
In practical terms, the project comprises a triple commitment: to advance interdisciplinary research on political economy and finance; to foster a community of academics, regulators, and practitioners; and to promulgate the best ideas in this emerging field to broader audiences. Therefore, the project entails an ambitious program to disseminate intellectual content through various media:
• A series of major conferences each year that draw an international community of experts.
• Sponsored lecture events will be made available as streaming and downloadable video content. The pedagogic work of the project will be repackaged as educational modules for use by other academic institutions.
• The possibility of edited, peer-reviewed, e-books growing out of major conferences.