SASE Conference 2021 | Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) | 2 July 2021 | Virtual Event

The Covid-19 pandemic challenges all kinds of taken-for-granted assumptions, within and between contemporary capitalist societies. Not only is the Covid-19 pandemic predicted by the IMF to lead to the most severe global economic downturn since the Great Depression, likely to overshadow the recession following the financial crisis of 2008. The pandemic has also disrupted and overturned deep-seated practices in our everyday life worlds; it has shaken long-established ways of organizing in companies, industries and global supply chains; and it has provoked a questioning of established growth models and sparked a return of the state, at least in some parts of the world. One might even argue that the “less is more” logic of social distancing and stay-at-home policy, together with the high uncertainty about future development, is threatening ideational core beliefs of neoliberal capitalism, ranging from global free movement, free play of markets, and unlimited exploitation of nature, together with the imaginaries and expectations built on them.

2021 Speakers

FEATURED SPEAKERS:

Nancy Folbre
Professor Emerita of Economics and Director of the Program on Gender and Care Work at the Political Economy Research Institute

Stephanie Kelton
Senior Fellow at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis

Alexander Kentikelenis
Assistant professor of sociology and political economy at Bocconi University

Jane Mansbridge
Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values

Hartmut Rosa
Professor of Sociology and Social Theory at Friedrich-Schiller-University in Jena