Noam Chomsky, Yanis Varoufakis, and Lisa Graves discussed the consequences of capitalism as a part of Noam Chomsky’s Consequences of Capitalism class at the University of Arizona.

Lisa Graves is a progressive activist who is senior fellow and former executive director of the Centre for Media and Democracy (CMD) and is the president of True North Research.

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Overview

In his talk, Yanis Varoufakis went over the following topics:

1. Competitive markets: Recounting the standard argument with Adam Smith onwards in favour of a market society.
2. Oligopolies: Capitalism became successful only when it killed off competition, and moved on from its competitive phase 19th century to its oligopoly phase — the mega firm foundations of capitalism beginning with the second industrial revolution.
3. Commodification: Commodification paved the ground for capitalism and was turbocharged by capitalism.
4. 2008: 2008 was our generation’s 1929 — the world changed.
5. Consequences: the ways in which capitalism has affected the world today.

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