We initiated the Age of Economic project by asking a diverse group of global thinkers their opinion on eight fundamental questions about economics and capitalist civilization. After a two-year break,…

About William Hynes Irish. Economist, Head of the New Approaches to Economic Challenges Unit (NAEC), OECD William Hynes is a Senior Advisor to the Secretary General and the Head of…

About Rana Foroohar American. Business columnist, associate editor at the Financial Times, and also CNN’s global economic analyst Foroohar spent thirteen years at Newsweek, as an economics and foreign affairs…

About Alan Kirman British-French. Directeur d’etudes, CAMS-EHESS Paris Professor Emeritus, Aix Marseille University Senior Adviser, OECD NAEC Initiative Alan Kirman is professor emeritus of Economics at the Aix-Marseille University and…

About Ludger Schuknecht German. Economist, former Chief Economist at the German Ministry of Finance, former Deputy Secretary-General of the OECD. Schuknecht studied Economics at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and…

About Noam Chomsky American. Linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic and political activist Sometimes called “the father of modern linguistics”, Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy,…

About Steve Keen Australian. Economist, author, and noted neo-Keynesian thinker and critic of neoclassical economics The major influences on Keen’s thinking about economics include John Maynard Keynes, Karl Marx, Hyman…

About Leo Johnson British. Broadcaster, writer, and noted expert on global megatrends. He studied PPP at Oxford and took an MBA at INSEAD before working for a decade at the…

About Andrew S. Nevin Canadian. Economist, Advisory Partner and Chief Economist at PwC Nigeria, working at the nexus of economics, strategy, and regulation. Andrew S. Nevin, PhD is an iconic…

8. Is Capitalism, or whatever we should call the current system, the best one to serve the needs of humanity, or can we imagine another one? Short with Mark Blyth…

About Jason DeSena Trennert American-Italian. Chairman and CEO of Strategas, one of Wall Street’s top thought leaders on markets and economic policy. His research pieces are read by leading institutional…

About Carolina Cristina Alves Brazilian. Economist, Joan Robinson Research Fellow in Heterodox Economics at the University of Cambridge, Girton College. Carolina is also the co-founder of initiative Diversifying and Decolonising…

7. Can global Capitalism survive in its current form? With: Claudia Chwalisz (Polish. Innovative Citizen Participation Lead, OECD Open Government Unit) Matheus Grasselli (Brazilian-Canadian. Professor of Financial Mathematics and Chair…

About Matheus Grasselli Brazilian-Canadian. Professor of Financial Mathematics and Chair of the Mathematics of Statistics Department at McMaster University. He was the Deputy Director of the Fields Institute for Research…

About Keyu Jin Chinese. Economist, Associate Professor at the London School of Economics and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. Her research focuses on global trade imbalances, global asset…

6. Does economics explain Capitalism? How would you define Capitalism? With Jason DeSena Trennert (American-Italian. Chairman and CEO of Strategas, one of Wall Street’s top thought leaders on markets and…

About Albena Azmanova Bulgarian. Scholar, author, sociologist, Associate Professor at the University of Kent’s Brussels School of International Studies. Albena Azmanova has written extensively on the transformation of capitalism and…

About Mark Blyth Scottish. Economist, author, William R. Rhodes Professor of International Economics at Brown University. Blyth grew up in Dundee, Scotland. In 1991, Blyth received a Walker Bequest award…

5. As we live in an age of economics and economists – in which economic developments feature prominently in our lives and economists have major influence over a wide range…