On 10 and 11 October, the Critical Economics Festival organised by the Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Foundation. The second edition of the Critical Economics Festival 'State Capitalism, State of Capitalism' entrusted to the curatorship of Professor Emanuele FeliceIt is intended as an opportunity for an open and constructive discussion to question the state of Capitalism on the one hand, and to rethink the role of the state in favour of a fairer and more just society on the other.
Participating in the Festival are some of the most representative voices on the national and international scene, including Vinod Aggarwal, Danielle Guizzo, Stefano Patuanelli, Madeleine Péron, Ernesto Maria Ruffini, Alfredo Saad Filho, Francesco Saraceno, Gary Stevenson, Bhaskar Sunkara, Nadia Urbinati, Vincenzo Visco, Sun Yanhong and many others.
Also among the protagonists of the 2025 edition Sara Berloto, Head of the ICCF Study Centre.
Two-day Festival, 20 meetings, 70 international guests to question together the state of capitalism and to rethink the role of the state in favour of an economy that is truly in the interest of all.
In recent decades, in western countries with advanced capitalism, there has been a transfer of wealth from the working classes to the elites, facilitated by precise economic policies: privatisation, labour deregulation, welfare cuts and incentives instead of public investment. Recent crises have shown that state intervention is indispensable, but the question remains as to how and for whom this intervention should take place. This raises the question of the problem of building a new development modelfair and sustainable, and the distribution of its costs and benefits. Furthermore, it is necessary rethinking the role of the state not only as a corrector of the market, but as a promoter of economic initiatives oriented towards collective welfare and social justice.
The Critical Economics Festival aims to be confrontation platform to break out of the pervasive patterns that condition us to try to develop critical thinking. The analysis of emerging economic models, of the new 'post-Beijing' global balances: from Brazil to India, China, the United States, Europe and England to understand the different relationships between politics and economics.
The challenge is to build an economic system in which welfare is not perceived as a cost, but as a strategic investment.
This will be discussed with scholars, journalists, economists, authors, activists and jurists around a number of themes: #M Models of capitalism
#Capitalism, state and finance #Capitalism, state and ecology #Capitalism, state and social economy # Capitalism, new scenarios and alternative development paradigms
The full programme of the Festival is available on the Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli website at this link.
Free admission. Reservations are recommended on dice.fm/festivaleconomicscritic.
The streaming meetings can be followed on the Foundation's website and Facebook page.
