The end of capitalism: is it coming soon?
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By: Anne-Cécile Bras Follow
50 min
The Covid is just one sign, among others, of the limits of our thermo-industrial civilization based on the extraction and massive exploitation of natural resources.
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It is therefore our global functioning that must be rethought, starting with an economic system which, like all its predecessors, has a history which may come to an end: capitalism.
But, why is it easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism?
Guests:
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Hervé Kempf,
editor-in-chief of Reporterre, who has just published
Que crève la capitalisme, c'est lui ou nous,
at éditions du Seuil
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Christian de Perthuis
, Professor of Economics at Paris-Dauphine University, founder of the Climate economics chair, which has just published
Covid 19 and global warming, advocacy for a resilience economy,
at De Boeck Supérieur.
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