Conference
Grace Blakeley: Vulture Capitalism
Organised by Southbank Centre
Join the acclaimed political commentator and economic thinker for a searing discussion pinpointing where capitalism has gone wrong, chaired by Mikaela Loach.
Everything you know about capitalism is wrong. Free markets aren't really free. Record corporate profits don't trickle down to everyone else. And we aren't empowered to make our own choices – they're made for us every day.
In Vulture Capitalism, Grace Blakeley takes on the world’s most powerful corporations by showing how the causes of our modern crises are the intended result of the system we have built. It’s not a broken system; it’s working exactly as planned. It can’t be fixed, instead it must be replaced.
Pulling back the curtain on the free-market mythology we have been sold, she shows that as corporate interests have taken hold, governments have shifted away from competition and democracy and towards monopoly and control.
Vulture Capitalism is the book you need to understand what is happening in the world around you – and what we can do to change it.
Grace Blakeley is an author, journalist and commentator, and one of the fiercest anti-capitalist advocates of her generation. She graduated from the University of Oxford with a first-class honours degree in philosophy, economics, and politics. S
he has written for the Guardian, Tribune and the New Statesman among others, and made appearances on BBC Breakfast, Good Morning Britain and Jeremy Vine on Channel Five. She is the author of Stolen and The Corona Crash.