War Abroad Austerity at Home, Imagining a Future Beyond Elites
May 14, 2026
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as posted by the channelEconomics shapes everything, yet it's presented as a science. Let's explore how austerity is a choice rather than an inevitability. Economics shapes every aspect of our lives — from housing and education to the cost of everyday essentials — yet it is often presented as an untouchable science, beyond the reach of ordinary people. But what if austerity is not inevitable, but a political choice?
Featuring economists Clara Mattei and Carolina Alves, in conversation with Camila Vergara, the event will explore the impact of war on the cost of living as well as economic and political alternatives to austerity.
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Clara E. Mattei - Professor of Economics, University of Tulsa. Author of Escape from Capitalism (Penguin / Simon & Schuster, 2026) and The Capital Order (FT Best Economics Book 2022). Founding President, FREE: Forum for Real Economic Emancipation. Former fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton.
Dr Carolina Alves – Associate Professor in Economics, UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. Former Joan Robinson Research Fellow in Heterodox Economics at the University of Cambridge. Co-founder of Diversifying and Decolonising Economics. Board member, Progressive Economy Forum and Positive Money.
Dr Camila Vergara – Critical legal and political theorist, University of Essex and University of Cambridge. Author of Systemic Corruption: Constitutional Ideas for an Anti-Oligarchic Republic (Princeton University Press, 2020). Winner of the 2023 BIAPT Early-Career Prize.
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