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The Centre for Capitalism Studies launch

1 November 2023

The Institute of Advanced Studies has launched a new research centre, the Centre for Capitalism Studies, led by Dr Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou.

presenters talking at CCS launch

ճ鶹ýƵվ Centre for CapitalismStudies(CCS) is a world-leading centre for critical interdisciplinary research into the past, present, and future of capitalism. It brings together 鶹ýƵվ facultyand students studying how markets, finance and economic institutions shape our everyday life, structure societies’ capacity to change, and arecontested and remade across time and space.

At the CCS launch event onFriday 20th October 2023, 200 people from universities, industry and culture institutions filled two vast 鶹ýƵվrooms to hear from leading thinkers, includingrenownedartist Hito Steyerl, the pre-eminent economist Prof Ha-Joon Chang and journalist Grace Blakeley,and debated the question: **Why we need to study capitalismtoday?**

ճCCS Director,Dr Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou said: "CCS is the first centre of its kind in the UK and Europe. Committed to drawing synergies from a wide range of disciplines spanning the arts, humanities and social sciences into the study of capitalism, CCS aims to become a key agent of influence in global intellectual and economic policy debates.Stay tuned as we develop these vital discussions into anexciting new research agenda!

You can follow CCS onԻ.And you can watch a recording of our launch event discussion below.

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The 鶹ýƵվ Centre for Capitalism Studies is supported by the Social Research Institute (SRI) and the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP).