{"title": "The Threat of Capitalism Without Democracy, with Martin Wolf", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-12T20:30:00Z", "place": "Conway Hall", "address": "Red Lion Square 25, WC1R 4RL London", "price": "Premium Seating £49.99, Standard £34.99, Concession £19.99 (each +£2 venue levy)", "price_from": "34.99", "price_to": "49.99", "tickets_url": "https://conwayhall.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/1173677311", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/economics"], "description": "An in-person talk titled \"The Threat of Capitalism Without Democracy, with Martin Wolf\", part of the Intelligence Squared series at Conway Hall. Martin Wolf, the chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, marks the launch of an updated edition of his book The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism. He argues that democratic capitalism, the pairing of free markets and free elections, is under attack, citing Donald Trump's tariffs, Elon Musk's alignment with far right parties and the rise of extreme parties worldwide, and makes the case for why the combination of both democracy and capitalism is needed more than ever. 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Peter Hall presents his new book \"Governing Growth\", tracing interactions between politics and economics in Western democracies over the past eighty years. He identifies three postwar growth regimes - modernization, liberalisation and knowledge-based growth - each paired with a distinctive regime of political representation, with discussants Sara Hobolt and David Soskice and chair Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey. 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Mark Garnier OBE MP, the UK Shadow Economic Secretary (Treasury) and Shadow Minister (Business, Innovation, Science and Trade), and a former trade minister in the Theresa May Government, will outline what a Conservative government's economic and trade policy may look like. He will discuss inward investment, the balance between economic growth and economic security, and the implications of the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. 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It is presented by Housmans, with Tribune and Verso, and features Oliver Eagleton, editor of Tribune magazine; Amelia Horgan, author of Lost in Work and Principal Editor at the Common Wealth think tank; and Ben Burgis, one of the book's authors, a Jacobin columnist, adjunct philosophy professor at Rutgers University and host of the YouTube show and podcast Give Them An Argument. The book lays out a system where workers control every lever of production, with competitive markets and state planning coexisting side by side, drawing on the history of socialist experiments and the economic debate over planning and markets. Tickets are priced on a sliding scale, with free tickets available on request.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/panel-how-can-socialism-work-in-the-real-world-41517/", "official_url": "https://housmans.com/event/panel-how-can-socialism-work-in-the-real-world/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1ddf46a87aad1314fc3940d4b5d8f452dcca72986633248177c3fb1d08c538b0-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Hope Working Group: Roundtable and Book Launch, David Chandler's Hope (Routledge Shortcuts)", "start": "2026-11-12T17:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "University of Westminster", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.routledge.com/Hope-Shortcuts-to-a-Big-Idea/Chandler/p/book/9781041058656", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/books", "society/politics"], "description": "A roundtable and book launch for David Chandler's Hope (Routledge Shortcuts), hosted by the Hope Working Group. 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