Debating Capitalism: Rebel and Reform

20 June 2019 - 17:30

Hertford Conversations are delighted to be hosting the next talk in our Debating Capitalism series with Will Hutton, joined by Colin Mayer and Phillip Ullman.

Colin Mayer is an expert on all aspects of corporate finance, governance and taxation, the regulation of financial institutions and the role of the corporation in contemporary society.

Phillip Ullman is the head of the Cordant Group who describes himself as the company’s “chief energiser” – and who aims to go beyond the John Lewis model and transform Cordant, which he owns, into a new form of socially purposed business.

While Colin Mayer will talk about the imperative of  transforming today’s capitalism for the better, Philip is actually doing it.

Come and join us in the Old Lodgings, Hertford College, on Thursday 20 June.

Tickets are free and are available through Eventbrite.

Find out more about our series of debates at www.hertford.ox.ac.uk/capitalism

Where is today’s capitalist economy headed?

“There are fewer and fewer defenders, even among business leaders, of the way the current system operates which – despite its capacity to create jobs – brings growing levels of inequality, poor levels of investment, ever more job insecurity and the diminution of the concept of career. Trust in business is falling to new levels. But with little appetite for a return to the socialist economy of the twentieth century, how can capitalism best be reformed or transformed? Hertford Conversations launches a series of debates with leading thinkers – Debating Capitalism.”

Will Hutton, Principal