Tuesday, September 8 | 18:30 | Iluzjon Stolica
Debate: Will COVID deepen inequality? Following the screening of CAPITAL IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, dir. Justin Pemberton
Language: Polish
Partner institution: Krytyka Polityczna magazine
The movie shows Thomas Piketty explaining how capitalism leads to increasing inequalities. Though economists claim that inequality motivates people to work, it’s evident that it also causes frustration and leads to social unrest. History teaches us that growing inequalities lead to the appearance of one of the horsemen of the Apocalypse: war, revolution, epidemic, or the fall of an empire. Is COVID one of these forces, or will the epidemic deepen existing inequalities? We will discuss these topics with our guests after the screening.
Moderator:
Karolina Safarzyńska, PhD—lecturer in economics and behavioral finance at the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the University of Warsaw. Works on sustainable development.
Guests:
Adrian Zandberg, PhD — historian, MP, university lecturer, co-founder and member of the National Board of Partia Razem.
Martyna Kobus, PhD — employee of the Center for Inequality Studies at the Institute of Economics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Interested in inequality measurement and policy result evaluation.
Michał Sutowski — political scientist, opinion journalist, translator. Employee of the Advanced Studies Institute, member of the Krytyka Polityczna team since 2007.
Piotr Lewandowski — economist, President of the Board of the Institute of Structural Research. His research is focused on labor economics.
