From the Vault: Ending Neoliberal Power Creep and Financial Capitalism / Saskia Sassen

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🗓️ 4 July 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Saskia Sassen is professor of sociology and member of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. Saskia's most recent book is 2007's "A Sociology of Globalization" (WW Norton). She wrote this week's openDemocracy piece, "The new executive politics: a democratic challenge". Before that, she wrote April's openDemocracy article, "Too big to save: the end of financial capitalism."

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