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The Fight Club: Debt Q&A

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Nika Dubrovsky, widow of the late David Graeber, has established "The Fight Club" to keep David's unique way of challenging conventional wisdoms alive. Each "Fight" will pit leading advocates, thinkers and visionaries against each other. The inaugural fight was a debate between the renowned economists Thomas Piketty, author of “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, and Michael Hudson, author of “And Forgive Them Their Debts”. This event was a follow up Q & A session with Hudson together with economists Bard's Pavlina Tcherneva and Steve Keen of Debunking Economics. Astra Taylor of the Debt Collective moderated. The conversation was a high-energy exchange of ideas and opinions about the history of debt and the role of money in society. Co-sponsored by The Museum of Care and the

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Nika Dubrovsky, widow of the late David Graeber, has established "The Fight Club" to keep David's unique way of challenging conventional wisdoms alive. Each "Fight" will pit leading advocates, thinkers and visionaries against each other.



The inaugural fight was a debate between the renowned economists Thomas Piketty, author of “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, and Michael Hudson, author of “And Forgive Them Their Debts”.



This event was a follow up Q & A session with Hudson together with economists Bard's Pavlina Tcherneva and Steve Keen of Debunking Economics. Astra Taylor of the Debt Collective moderated. The conversation was a high-energy exchange of ideas and opinions about the history of debt and the role of money in society.



Co-sponsored by The Museum of Care and the Economic Democracy Initiative
Thomas Piketty
Thomas Piketty (7 May 1971) is a French economist who works on wealth and income inequality. He is a professor (directeur d'études) at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), associate chair at the Paris School of Economics and Centennial professor at the London School of Economics new International Inequalities Institute.

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